TY - CHAP A1 - Dünnweber, Jan A1 - Aldinucci, Marco A1 - Gorlatch, Sergei A1 - Campa, Sonia A1 - Danelutto, Marco ED - Gorlatch, Sergei ED - Danelutto, Marco T1 - Adaptable Parallel Components for Grid Programming T2 - Integrated Research in GRID Computing N2 - We suggest that parallel software components used for grid computing should be adaptable to application-specific requirements, instead of developing new components from scratch for each particular application. As an example, we take a parallel farm component which is “embarrassingly parallel”, i. e., free of dependencies, and adapt it to the wavefront processing pattern with dependencies that impact its behavior. We describe our approach in the context of Higher-Order Components (HOCs), with the Java-based system Lithium as our implementation framework. The adaptation process relies on HOCs’ mobile code parameters that are shipped over the network of the grid. We describe our implementation of the proposed component adaptation method and report first experimental results for a particular grid application — the alignment of DNA sequence pairs, a popular, time-critical problem in computational molecular biology. KW - Grid Components KW - Adaptable Code KW - Wavefront Parallelism KW - Java KW - Web Services Y1 - 2006 SN - 978-0-387-47656-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47658-2_4 SP - 43 EP - 57 PB - Springer Verlag CY - Boston, MA ER -