Resource management for parallel adaptive components

This paper reports the development of the Concerto platform, which is dedicated to supporting the deployment of parallel adaptive components on clusters of workstations. The current work aims at proposing a basic model of a parallel component, together with mechanisms and tools for managing the deployment of such a component. Another objective of this work is to define and implement a scheme that makes it possible for components to perceive their runtime environment. This environment is modelled as a set of resources. Any component can discover and monitor resources, using the services offered by the platform.