Enforcing consistency during the adaptation of a parallel component

As grid architectures provide execution environments that are distributed, parallel and dynamic, applications require to be not only parallel and distributed, but also able to adapt themselves to their execution environment. This article presents a model for designing self-adaptable parallel components that can be assembled to build applications for grid. This model includes the definition of a consistency criterion for the dynamic adaptation of SPMD components. We propose a solution to implement this criterion. It has been evaluated on both synthetic and real codes to exhibit the behavior of the several proposed strategies