Application Awareness in Adaptation Middleware: Balancing Transparency
with Performance and Adaptivity.

Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and Andreas Stathopoulos.

Abstract:

The complexity of today's microprocessors and parallel environments prohibits 
most applications from achieving even a small percentage of their performance. 
The situation is exacerbated on modern multi-user, heterogeneous, highly 
variable environments such as Computational Grids.
Unfortunately, this complexity cannot be hidden efficiently in the operating 
system. A host of middleware is developed for this purpose, and often 
application-level resource management is necessary. System-aware applications 
and application-aware systems should perform runtime optimizations to capture 
most of the available performance in the desired metric.  This talk addresses 
such runtime optimizations at all three interoperating levels, operating 
system, middleware, applications.