High performance distributed systems: resource management and middleware

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The availability of computing systems and communication networks at a reasonable cost is rapidly increasing the deployment of parallel and distributed systems. A grid that provides on-demand access to computing, storage, communication and various other types of resources that include wireless devices and sensors is receiving a great deal of attention in various fields including scientific, engineering as well as enterprise computing. Achieving a desired level of quality of service, scalability, high resource utilization and robustness are important for an effective deployment of such systems. Effective management of resources is crucial in achieving these system objectives. With the rapid evolution in both hardware and software technologies inter-operability on a heterogeneous environment is becoming an important requirement for distributed applications that utilize the system resources described earlier. Middleware is the glue that provides such inter-operability. Due to the multi-billion dollar investment in Web Services (WS) technologies by major software companies, many inter-operable systems of the future are expected to be WS-based. Although WS-based systems can provide inter-operability, if not designed carefully, the concomitant system overhead can give rise to severe performance penalties. Research is proposed for resource management on grids as well as on high performance WS-based systems. The research results will be useful in application design, operating systems, and middleware for grids and other web services-based parallel/distributed systems.