Euro-Par 2008 workshops - parallel processing : VHPC 2008, UNICORE 2008, HPPC 2008, SGS 2008, PROPER 2008, ROIA 2008, and DPA 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 25-26, 2008 ; revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of seven international events, held in Las Palma de Gran Canaria, Spain, in August 2008 within the scope of Euro-Par 2008, the 14th International Conference on Parallel Computing. The 43 papers presented together with 7 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from numerous presentations at the following workshops: the 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC 2008), the UNICORE Summit 2008, the International Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2008), the Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services (SGS 2008), the Workshop on Productivity and Performance (PROPER 2008), the Workshop on Real-Time Online Interactive Applications on the Grid (ROIA 2008), and the Workshop on Abstractions for Distributed Systems (DPA 2008). Front Matter....Pages - Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC 2008)....Pages 1-1 Tools and Techniques for Managing Virtual Machine Images....Pages 3-12 Dynamic on Demand Virtual Clusters in Grid....Pages 13-22 Dynamic Provisioning of Virtual Clusters for Grid Computing....Pages 23-32 Dynamic Resources Management of Virtual Appliances on a Computational Cluster....Pages 33-42 Complementarity between Virtualization and Single System Image Technologies....Pages 43-52 Efficient Shared Memory Message Passing for Inter-VM Communications....Pages 53-62 An Analysis of HPC Benchmarks in Virtual Machine Environments....Pages 63-71 UNICORE Summit 2008....Pages 73-73 Space-Based Approach to High-Throughput Computations in UNICORE 6 Grids....Pages 75-83 The Chemomentum Data Services – A Flexible Solution for Data Handling in UNICORE....Pages 84-93 A Reliable and Fast Data Transfer for Grid Systems Using a Dynamic Firewall Configuration....Pages 94-102 Workflow Service Extensions for UNICORE 6 – Utilising a Standard WS-BPEL Engine for Grid Service Orchestration....Pages 103-112 Benchmarking of Integrated OGSA-BES with the Grid Middleware....Pages 113-122 Second Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2008)....Pages 123-125 Models for Parallel and Hierarchical On-Chip Computation....Pages 127-128 Building a Concurrency and Resource Allocation Model into a Processor’s ISA....Pages 129-130 Optimized Pipelined Parallel Merge Sort on the Cell BE....Pages 131-140 Towards an Intelligent Environment for Programming Multi-core Computing Systems....Pages 141-151 Adaptive Read Validation in Time-Based Software Transactional Memory....Pages 152-162 Compile-Time and Run-Time Issues in an Auto-Parallelisation System for the Cell BE Processor....Pages 163-173 A Unified Runtime System for Heterogeneous Multi-core Architectures....Pages 174-183 (When) Will CMPs Hit the Power Wall?....Pages 184-193 Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services (SGS 2008)....Pages 195-197 Meta-Brokering Solutions for Expanding Grid Middleware Limitations....Pages 199-210 Building Secure Resources to Ensure Safe Computations in Distributed and Potentially Corrupted Environments....Pages 211-222 Simbatch: An API for Simulating and Predicting the Performance of Parallel Resources Managed by Batch Systems....Pages 223-234 Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Protocols Performance for Establishing a Decentralized Desktop Grid Middleware....Pages 235-246 Towards a Security Model to Bridge Internet Desktop Grids and Service Grids....Pages 247-259 Workshop on Productivity and Performance (PROPER 2008)....Pages 261-261 Enabling Data Structure Oriented Performance Analysis with Hardware Performance Counter Support....Pages 263-272 Complete Def-Use Analysis in Recursive Programs with Dynamic Data Structures....Pages 273-282 Parametric Studies in Eclipse with TAU and PerfExplorer....Pages 283-294 Trace-Based Analysis and Optimization for the Semtex CFD Application – Hidden Remote Memory Accesses and I/O Performance....Pages 295-304 Scalasca Parallel Performance Analyses of PEPC....Pages 305-314 Comparing the Usability of Performance Analysis Tools....Pages 315-325 Real-Time Online Interactive Applications on the Grid (ROIA 2008)....Pages 327-328 Real-Time Performance Support for Complex Grid Applications....Pages 329-338 CoUniverse: Framework for Building Self-organizing Collaborative Environments Using Extreme-Bandwidth Media Applications....Pages 339-351 Developing VR Applications for the Grid....Pages 352-360 An Information System for Real-Time Online Interactive Applications....Pages 361-370 Securing Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications in edutain@grid....Pages 371-381 The edutain@grid Portals – Providing User Interfaces for Different Kinds of Actors....Pages 382-389 A Case Study on Using RTF for Developing Multi-player Online Games....Pages 390-400 Abstractions for Distributed Systems (DPA 2008)....Pages 401-401 Co-design of Distributed Systems Using Skeleton and Autonomic Management Abstractions....Pages 403-414 Distributed Data Mining Tasks and Patterns as Services....Pages 415-422 ProActive Parallel Suite: From Active Objects-Skeletons-Components to Environment and Deployment....Pages 423-437 On Abstractions of Software Component Models for Scientific Applications....Pages 438-449 Group Abstractions for Organizing Dynamic Distributed Systems....Pages 450-459 Back Matter....Pages - Parallel and distributed processing, although within the focus of computer science research for a long time, is gaining more and more importance in a wide spectrum of applications. These proceedings aim to demonstrate the use of parallel and distributed processing concepts in different application fields, and attempt to spark interest in novel research directions to parallel and high-performance computing research in general. The objective of these workshops is to specifically address researchers coming from university, industry and governmental research organizations and application-oriented companies in order to close the gap between purely scientific research and the applicab- ity of the research ideas to real-life problems. Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the pro- tion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The 2008 event was the 14th issue of the conference. Euro-Par has for a long time been eager to attract colocated events sharing the same goal of promoting the dev- opment of parallel and distributed computing, both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. Since 2006, Euro-Par has been offering researchers the chance to co- cate advanced technical workshops back-to-back with the main conference.