Network-aware adaptive applications attempt to maintain a user-oriented quality model (e.g., response time) in the presence of adverse network conditions. Such applications adjust their resource demands in response to changes in the network environment or attempt to select nodes at start-up that provide reasonable services.

To perform adaptations, applications need information about the current (changing) state of the network, and gathering such information incurs a cost. At the same time, application developers want to be sheltered from network idiosyncrasies to maintain some level of portability. In this talk Gross will present Remos (Resource Monitoring System), a system that attempts to provide a compromise between portability, performance, and scalability.

Joint work with P. Dinda, B. Lowekamp, N. Miller, P. Steenkiste, and D. Sutherland, Carnegie Mellon; and J. Bolliger, and R. Karrer, ETH Zurich.

Thursday, February 15 at 4pm in DH 1064

A reception will follow in DH 3092.