1. Editorial

   • Ian Foster

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 105

2. Efficient layering for high speed communication: the MPI over Fast Messages (FM) experience

   • Mario Lauria
   • Scott Pakin
   • Andrew Chien

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 116

3. A fault detection service for wide area distributed computations

   • Paul Stelling
   • Cheryl DeMatteis
   • Gregor von Laszewski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 128

4. Matchmaking: An extensible framework for distributed resource management

   • Rajesh Raman
   • Miron Livny
   • Marv Solomon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 138

5. A resource query interface for network-aware applications

   • Bruce Lowekamp
   • Nancy Miller
   • Dean Sutherland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 151

6. PUNCH: An architecture for Web-enabled wide-area network-computing

   • Nirav H. Kapadia
   • José A.B. Fortes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 164

7. An authorization framework for metacomputing applications

   • T.V. Ryutov
   • G. Gheorghiu
   • B.C. Neuman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 175