1. Editorial

   • Peter Steenkiste

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 5 - 5

2. Speculative Defragmentation – Leading Gigabit Ethernet to True Zero-Copy Communication

   • Christian Kurmann
   • Felix Rauch
   • Thomas M. Stricker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 18

3. A Monitoring Sensor Management System for Grid Environments

   • Brian Tierney
   • Brian Crowley
   • Mary Thompson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 28

4. An Evaluation of Alternative Designs for a Grid Information Service

   • Warren Smith
   • Abdul Waheed
   • Jerry Yan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 37

5. Multiple Bypass: Interposition Agents for Distributed Computing

   • Douglas Thain
   • Miron Livny

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 47

6. A Framework for Automatic Adaptation of Tunable Distributed Applications

   • Fangzhe Chang
   • Vijay Karamcheti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 62

7. Master–Worker: An Enabling Framework for Applications on the Computational Grid

   • Jean-Pierre Goux
   • Sanjeev Kulkarni
   • Jeff Linderoth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

8. Parallel Sequence Matching with TACO's Distributed Object Groups – A Case Study from Molecular Biology

   • Jörg Nolte
   • Paul Horton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 77

9. CAVEStudy: An Infrastructure for Computational Steering and Measuring in Virtual Reality Environments

   • Luc Renambot
   • Henri E. Bal
   • Hans J.W. Spoelder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 87