1. Introduction for the Special Issue on Grid Computing

   Introduction Pages: 223 - 223

2. Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks

   • Peter A. Dinda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 236

3. Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids

   • James Frey
   • Todd Tannenbaum
   • Steven Tuecke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 246

4. NAS Grid Benchmarks: A Tool for Grid Space Exploration

   • Michael Frumkin
   • Rob F. Van der Wijngaart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 255

5. Security Implications of Typical Grid Computing Usage Scenarios

   • Marty Humphrey
   • Mary R. Thompson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 264

6. Location Selection for Active Services

   • Roger Karrer
   • Thomas R. Gross

   OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 275

7. A CORBA-Based Distributed Component Environment for Wrapping and Coupling Legacy Scientific Codes

   • Gregory Follen
   • Chan Kim
   • Scott Townsend

   OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 285

8. A Web-Based Data Architecture for Problem-Solving Environments: Application of Distributed Authoring and Versioning to the Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment

   • K.L. Schuchardt
   • J.D. Myers
   • E.G. Stephan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 296

9. The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory: A Science Portal Enabling Community Software Development

   • Michael Russell
   • Gabrielle Allen
   • Gregor von Laszewski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 304

10. File and Object Replication in Data Grids

    • Heinz Stockinger
    • Asad Samar
    • Brian Tierney

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 314

11. Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for High Performance Computing

    • Patrick Widener
    • Greg Eisenhauer
    • Fabián E. Bustamante

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 324

12. Programming the Grid: Distributed Software Components, P2P and Grid Web Services for Scientific Applications

    • Dennis Gannon
    • Randall Bramley
    • Nicolas Rey-Cenvaz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 336