Examples of Applications Areas

Distributed computing environments encompass a wide range of computing paradigms - from Virtual Shared Memory (VSM) to Message Passing (MP) - and can include a wide range of environments from those controlled by Cluster Management Software (CMS) to those which are embedded in the operating system kernel to provide the image of single system (DCCE) .

The following list gives some examples of areas that papers submitted to this special should be deal with. If there is any doubts as to whether the area that you are working in is applicable, please contact the Guest Editor - Mark Baker at mab@npac.syr.edu

• Experiences using a CMS package with commercial applications.

• Comparisons of the performance characteristics encountered when running applications under different environments.

• Experiences of using similar computing environments on different hardware platforms.

• Load balancing applications.

• Experiences of using various different environments - from Virtual Shared Memory to Message Passing.

• Application responsiveness and scalability.

• Parameter estimation for performance modelling of applications.

• Monitoring and modeling applications.

• Resource management and configuration.

• Task Management and synchronisation.

• Collaborative tools and techniques.

• Authentication, security and information surety.

• The use of emerging technologies to help tackle problem solving in a distributed computing environment.

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