The goal of the Network Weather Service is to provide accurate forecasts of dynamically
changing performance characteristics from a distributed set of metacomputing resources …

Monitoring is the act of collecting information concerning the characteristics and status of
resources of interest. Monitoring grid resources is a lively research area given the …

Network-aware applications, ie, applications that adapt to network conditions in an
application-specific way, need both static and dynamic information about the network to be …

High-end networked applications such as distance visualization, distributed data analysis,
and advanced collaborative environments have demanding quality of service (QoS) …

We present a system called the adaptive compression environment (ACE) that automatically
and transparently applies compression (on-the-fly) to a communication stream to improve …

Networked systems provide a cost-effective platform for parallel computing, but the
applications have to deal with the changing availability of computation and communication …

The computational grid is becoming the platform of choice for large-scale distributed data-
intensive applications. Accurately predicting the transfer times of remote data files, a …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for distributing application, system and network specification
information to functional elements controlling a plurality of hosts in a distributed …

In this paper, we integrate components for (a) resource provisioning and (b) information
collection that allows for cost-effective enforcement of application QoS while tolerating …

Many grand challenge applications can benefit from metacomputing, ie, the coordinated use
of geographically distributed heterogeneous supercomputers. A salient feature of such …