CoreGRID Workshop on GRID Middleware -- Architecture of a Network Monitoring Element -- Support for Automatic Diagnosis and Dynamic Configuration of Scalable Storage Systems -- Adding Dynamism to OGSA-DQP: Incorporating the DynaSOAr Framework in Distributed Query Processing -- Review of Security Models Applied to Distributed Data Access -- Security Requirements Analysis for Large-Scale Distributed File Systems -- Coupling Contracts for Deployment on Alien Grids -- A Transparent Framework for Hierarchical Master-Slave Grid Computing -- A Multi-level Scheduler for the Grid Computing YML Framework -- Virtual Environments - Framework for Virtualized Resource Access in the Grid -- Grid Meta-Broker Architecture: Towards an Interoperable Grid Resource Brokering Service -- A Super-Peer Model for Multiple Job Submission on a Grid -- A Scheduling Algorithm for High Performance Peer-to-Peer Platform -- Brokering Multi-grid Workflows in the P-GRADE Portal -- Diet: New Developments and Recent Results -- Execution Support of High Performance Heterogeneous Component-Based Applications on the Grid -- Towards a Grid Information Knowledge Base -- UNICORE Summit 2006 -- A Versatile Execution Management System for Next-Generation UNICORE Grids -- Towards More Flexible and Increased Security and Privacy in Grids -- Integration of Grid Cost Model into ISS/VIOLA Meta-scheduler Environment -- A One-Stop, Fire-and-(Almost)Forget, Dropping-Off and Rendezvous Point -- Grid-Based Processing of High-Volume Meteorological Data Sets -- BLAST Application on the GPE/UnicoreGS Grid -- Job Management Enterprise Application -- UNICORE Deployment Within the DEISA Supercomputing Grid Infrastructure -- Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics -- Progress in Scaling Biomolecular Simulations to Petaflop Scale Platforms -- Progress Towards Petascale Applications in Biology: Status in 2006 -- Toward a Solution of the Reverse Engineering Problem Using FPGAs -- Two Challenges in Genomics That Can Benefit from Petascale Platforms -- High Throughput Image Analysis on PetaFLOPS Systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the three International Workshops on Grid Middleware, CoreGrid 2006, the UNICORE Summit 2006, and the Workshop on Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, held in Dresden, Germany, in August/September 2006, in conjunction with Euro-Par 2006, the 12th International Conference on Parallel Computing. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 50 submissions. The 16 papers presented at the CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Middleware focused on knowledge and data management on grids, grid resource management and scheduling, as well as grid information, resource and workflow monitoring services. The 8 papers presented at the UNICORE Summit 2006 show current developments and implementations of the UNICORE middleware system, which today is used in daily production worldwide. Beyond this production usage, the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and International projects. The concern of the 5 papers of the Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Workshop was to show what bioinformatics or computational biology applications can or should accomplish with petascale computing environments, and what obstacles must be overcome in order to implement and use effective and important problems in the life sciences (biology, biochemistry, environmental sciences, etc.).