The GRID. Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. Edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman.

• Computational Grids : Chapter 2.


• Application Specific Tools : Chapter 7.

CCA: Common Component Architecture.

• Toward a Common Common Architecture for High Performance Scientific Computing.
  Rob Armstrong, Dennis Gannon, Al Geist, Katarzyna Keahey, Scott Kohn, Lois McInnes, Steve Parker, Brent Smolinski.
  Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing.


• The DOE Common Component Architecture Project .
  Dennis Gannon.
  Report.

A write-up summarizing some issues regarding parallel data representations can be found here.

PAWS: Parallel Application Work Space. (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)

• "PARDIS: CORBA-based Architecture for Application-Level PARallel DIStributed Computation."
  Kate Keahey, Dennis Gannon.
  Proceedings of the 19967 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS).
  November 1997, San Jose, CA.


• "PAWS: Collective Interactions and Data Transfers."
  Kate Keahey, Pat Fasel, Sue Mniszewski.
  High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10) conference.
  August 2001, San Francisco, CA.


• "Efficient Coupling of Parallel Applications Using PAWS."
  Peter Beckman, Pat Fasel, William Humphrey, Sue Mniszewski.
  High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-7) conference.
  July 1998, Chicago, IL.

CUMULVS: Collaborative User Migration, User Library for Visualization and Steering. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory.)

• "CUMULVS: Providing Fault-Tolerance, Visualization and Steering of Parallel Applications."
  G. A. Geist, J. A. Kohl, P. M. Papadopoulos.
  Environment and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing Workshop.
  August 21-23, 1996, Domaine de Faverges-de-la-Tour, Lyon, France.


• "CUMULVS: Extending a Generic Steering and Visualization Middleware for Application Fault-Tolerance."
  P. M. Papadopoulos, J. A. Kohl, B. D. Semeraro.
  Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31).
  January 1998, Kona, Hawaii.

Meta-Chaos: A framework for providing the ability to use multiple specialized data parallel libraries and/or languages within a single application. (University of Maryland.)

• "Interoperability of Data Parallel Runtime Libraries."
  G. Edjlali, A. Sussman and J. Saltz.
  International Parallel Processing Symposium.
  1997, Geneva, Switzerland.
  
  
• "A Runtime Coupling of Data-parallel Programs."
  M. Ranganathan, A. Acharya, G. Edjlali, A. Sussman and J. Saltz.
  Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS).
  May 1996, Philadelphia, PA.

• "Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing."
  John M. May.
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
  2001, San Francisco, CA.

• "PVFS: A Parallel File System For Linux Clusters."
  P. H. Carns, W. B. Ligon III, R. B. Ross, and R. Thakur,
  Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference.
  October 2000, Atlanta, GA.
  

• "GMI: Flexible and Efficient Group Method Invocation for Parallel Programming."
  Jason Maassen, Thilo Kielmann, Henri E. Bal
  LCR'02: Sixth Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers.
  March 22-23, 2002, Washington DC, USA.


• "Parallel Remote Method Invocation."
  Kostadin Damevski.
  Master Thesis (section 3.1), University of Utah.
  May 2003, Salt Lake City, USA.