Marisa Gil (marisa@ac.upc.es)
Xavier Martorell (xavim@ac.upc.es)
The course basic goal is to study and to design the services that the system will offer in order to achieve an efficient parallel execution. We will envision the application needs depending on the application execution patterns and depending on the architecture on top of which the application is running. The main discussion is centered on the operating environment and how this environment can affect the application performance. Other topics are: which services are more appropiate; in which way we have to offer the services; which are the best configuration parameter values for a given environment and how can we modify these parameters. This year we will focus in two emergent technologies: pervasive computing and SMP's and cluster computing.