Published: 2001-09-18

Editorial

A Provision of a Single System Image Can Move Parallel Processing on Non-dedicated Clusters to the Mainstream Computing

Andrzej M. Goscinski

Introduction to the Special Issue

Monitoring Systems and Tool Interoperability

Thomas Ludwig, Barton P. Miller

Special Issue Papers

Monitoring Concepts for Parallel Systems—An Evolution towards Interoperable Tool Environments

Roland Wismuller, Thomas Ludwig, Wolfgang Karl, Arndt Bode

The FIRST Framework for Interoperable Run-time Software Tools

John M. Kewley, Radu Prodan

Supporting On-line Distributed Monitoring and Debugging

Vitor Duarte, João Lourenço, José C. Cunha

A Framework for Multi-Execution Performance Tuning

Karen L. Karavanic, Barton P. Miller

Specifying Performance Properties of Parallel Applications Using Compound Events

Felix Wolf, Bernd Mohr

Research Reports

Discrete Steepest Descent in Real Time

Selim G. Akl

Book Reviews

MICO, An Open Source CORBA Implementation

Rafal Angryk

Parallel Database Techniques

Michelle Pal