Grid Computing First European Across Grids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 13-14, 2003, Revised Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First European Across Grids Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in February 2003.
The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers address all current issues in grid computing, in particular grid middleware architectures, tools, resource management, job scheduling, data management, grid-based distant e-learning, stream-oriented database management, data stripping, large-scale grid applications, simulation, visualization, data mining, grid performance analysis, and grid monitoring.

Experiences on Grid Resource Selection Considering Resource Proximity.- Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids.- The EU-CrossGrid Approach for Grid Application Scheduling.- Job Scheduling and Resource Management Techniques in Economic Grid Environments.- VOMS, an Authorization System for Virtual Organizations.- A Grid Framework for Optimistic Resource Sharing.- Search Engines for the Grid: A Research Agenda.- Design and Implementation of a Grid-Enabled Component Container forCORBA Lightweight Components.- First Prototype of the CrossGrid Testbed.- An Advanced Security Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Relational Grid Data Sources.- High-Performance GRID Stream Database Manager for Scientific Data.- Optimization of Data Access for Grid Environment.- ATLAS Data Challenges in GRID Environment on CYFRONET Cluster.- MAPFS-Grid: A Flexible Architecture for Data-Intensive Grid Applications.- RAID-1 and Data Stripping across the GRID.- A Parallel I/OMiddleware to Integrate Heterogeneous Storage Resources on Grids.- Mobile Work Environment for Grid Users.- Grid-Enabled Visualization with GVK.- Grid Services for HLA-Based Distributed Simulation Frameworks.- A Grid-Enabled Air Quality Simulation.- GRID Oriented Implementation of Self-organizing Maps for Data Mining in Meteorology.- Grid Computing in Structure Determination of Biological Specimens by Electron Microscope Tomography.- A Grid Representation for Distributed Virtual Environments.- Interactive Distributed Data Access in a GRID Environment.- Dynamic Grid Catalog Information Service.- Network Performance Measurements as Part of Feasibility Studies on Moving an ATLAS Event Filter to Off-Site Institutes.- A Flexible Multi-level Grid Monitoring Architecture.- Automatic Services Discovery, Monitoring and Visualization of Grid Environments: The MapCenter Approach.- Monitoring Grid Applications with Grid-Enabled OMIS Monitor.- The G-PM Tool for Grid-Oriented Performance Analysis.-Jiro Based Grid Infrastructure Monitoring System – State of Development Report.- Performance Prediction in a Grid Environment.- ULabGrid, an Infrastructure to Develop Distant Laboratories for Undergrad Students over a Grid.- Wireless Java-Enabled MIDP Devices as Peers in a Grid Infrastructure.- TCP Behavior on Transatlantic Lambda’s.- Grid Characteristics and Uses: A Grid Definition.- An Overview of European Grid Projects.- The CrossGrid Architecture: Applications, Tools, and Grid Services.- Comparison of Grid Middleware in European Grid Projects.