Keynote and Invited Papers -- DOT-COMing the GRID: Using Grids for Business -- Design Issues of Network Enabled Server Systems for the Grid -- Grid Resource Management -- Architectural Models for Resource Management in the Grid -- JaWS: An Open Market-Based Framework for Distributed Computing over the Internet -- MeSch - An Approach to Resource Management in a Distributed Environment -- Resource Management Method for Cooperative Web Computing on Computational Grid -- Architecture for a Grid Operating System -- Data Management in an International Data Grid Project -- Grid Middleware and Problem Solving Environments -- XtremWeb: Building an Experimental Platform for Global Computing -- A Grid Computing Environment for Enabling Large Scale Quantum Mechanical Simulations -- A Web-Based Metacomputing Problem-Solving Environment for Complex Applications -- Focale: Towards a Grid View of Large-Scale Computation Components -- Web Enabled Client-Server Model for Development Environment of Distributed Image Processing -- An Advanced User Interface Approach for Complex Parameter Study Process Specification on the Information Power Grid -- Grid Test-Beds and Resource Discovery -- Mini-Grids: Effective Test-Beds for GRID Application -- Configuration Method of Multiple Clusters for the Computational Grid -- A Parameter-Based Approach to Resource Discovery in Grid Computing Systems -- Application-Level Scheduling on the Grid -- Evaluation of Job-Scheduling Strategies for Grid Computing -- Experiments with Migration of Message-Passing Tasks -- Adaptive Scheduling for Master-Worker Applications on the Computational Grid.

Welcome to GRID 2000, the first annual IEEE/ACM international workshop on grid computing sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The workshop has received generous sponsorship from the European Grid Forum (eGrid), the EuroTools SIG on Metacomputing, Microsoft Research (USA), Sun Microsystems (USA), and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (India). It is a sign of the current high levels of interest and activity in Grid computing that we have had contributions to the workshop from researchers and developers in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and USA. It is our pleasure and honor to present the first annual international Grid computing meeting program and the proceedings. The Grid: A New Network Computing Infrastructure The growing popularity of the Internet along with the availability of powerful computers and high speed networks as low cost commodity components are helping to change the way we do computing. These new technologies are enabling the coupling of a wide variety of geographically distributed resources, such as parallel supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, and special devices, that can then be used as a unified resource and thus form what is popularly known as the “Grids”.