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Annotation This collection of 85 papers from the May 2001 symposium presents developments in cluster and grid computing that enable applications to share resources and content across the Internet in a peer-to-peer manner. The main areas of discussion are component and agent approaches, input/output and databases, message passing, scheduling, and distributed shared memory. Some of the topics are design of a generic platform for scalable cluster computing based on middleware techniques, early experiences with the EGrid testbed, software environments for cluster-based display systems, the performance of CORBA for distributed and grid applications, sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems, and a tool kit for the simulation of application scheduling. No subject index. c. Book News Inc.