The table summarized the expertise in the different groups participating to the ù
programmaing model Virtual Institute as emerged from the Cherleroi kick-off meeting.
The declared involvement in the three activities of this Virtual Institute is also
outlined.
| Group | Task 1 | Task 2 | Task 3 | Keywords |
| CNR-ISTI (I) | yes | yes | Visual environments to design, compose and search components (à la google) | |
| FHG (Fokus) (D) | yes | Component based middleware and CCM implementation (+tools) + QoS (CCM standardisation + addition to container concept for grid) | ||
| IC (UK) | yes | yes | High level middleware (ICENI) + layered component model | |
| INRIA (F) | yes | yes | yes | Sophia Anitpolis: distributed and parallel component models + (distributed)
componennts (ProActive) Grenoble: component model specification & semantics + implementation (component based middleware) Rennes: OO SPMD (moving from parallel object to components) + implementation + CORBA communication performance & deployment + adaptability |
| QUB (UK) | yes | Specification trasformation/correctness (moving experience in functional programming to grid & components framework) | ||
| Uni Muenster (D) | yes | yes | High level/order components (reference implementation on Globus + methodology + transformations (efficiency driven) + efficient synchronization and communication mechanisms | |
| UCAM (UK) | Sw tools (debugging) | |||
| UCHILE (Chile) | yes | yes | Distributed object + load balancing + distributed garbage collector | |
| UNCL (UK) | yes | Components & web services + composition of components. Dynamic adaptivity + fault tolerance. Virtual organizazions | ||
| U-PASSAU (D) | yes | yes | Loop parallelization. Metprogramming for high performance parallelism experience movig to grid. Intercomponent optimization ((dynamically) exploit compile time abstract info to optimize) |
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| UNIPI (I) | yes | yes | yes | High performance component models (migrating experience from high performance parallel compunting) + Component composition and structuring + Automatic adaptation of component behaviuor to grid dynamic features & fault tolerance. High peformance parallel components |
| EIA-FR (CH) | yes | Parallel and distributed programming to parallel object model (semantics & C++ implementations) + run time adaptivity (grain) | ||
| UOW (UK) | yes | (hybrid) programming models and environments involving communications with flexible and adaptible implementation + methodology for components deinition, usage and composition in grid systems | ||
| UPC (E) | yes | Models for web and grid computing with approximation + library for parallel combinatorial optimization + program correctness/semantics | ||
| VUA (NL) | yes | yes | OO programming models for grid applications (IBIS) + group communication + load balancing (with divide and conquer) + run time adaptation + fault tolerant programming models + componentisation of GAT | |
| VTT (SU) | yes | Parallel and distributed programming models |