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Clusters of workstations are becoming increasingly popular as a low-budget alternative for supercomputing power. In these systems,message-passing is often used to allow the separate nodes to act as a single computing machine. Programmers of such systems face a daunting challenge in understanding the performance bottlenecks of their applications. This is largely due to the vast amount of performance data that is collected, and the time and expertise necessary to use traditional parallel performance tools to analyze that data. The goal of this project is to increase the level of performance tool support for message-passing application programmers on clusters of workstations. We added support for LAM/MPI into the existing parallel performance tool,P aradyn. LAM/MPI is a commonly used, freely-available implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI),and also includes several newer MPI features,such as dynamic process creation. In addition, we added support for non-shared filesystems into Paradyn and enhanced the existing support for the MPICH implementation of MPI. We verified that Paradyn correctly measures the performance of the majority of LAM/MPI programs on Linux clusters and show the results of those tests. In addition,we discuss MPI-2 features that are of interest to parallel performance tool developers and design support for these features for Paradyn.

The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) is a SOAP-centric language for describing Web Service contracts. SSDL focuses on message abstraction as the building block for creating service-oriented applications and provides an extensible range of protocol frameworks that can be used to describe and formally model Web Service interactions. SSDL's natural alignment with service-oriented design principles intuitively suggests that it encourages the creation of applications that adhere to this architectural paradigm. Given the lack of tools and empirical data for using SSDL as part of Web Services-based SOAs, we identified the need to investigate its practicability and usefulness through empirical work. To that end we have developed Soya, a programming model and runtime environment for creating and executing SSDL-based Web Services. On the one hand, Soya provides straightforward programming abstractions that foster message-oriented thinking. On the other hand, it leverages contemporary tooling (i.e. Windows Communication Foundation) with SSDL-related runtime functionality and semantics. In this thesis, we describe the design and architecture of Soya and show how it makes it possible to use SSDL as an alternative and powerful metadata language without imposing unrealistic burdens on application developers. In addition, we use Soya and SSDL in a case study which provides a set of initial empirical results with respect to SSDL's strengths and drawbacks. In summary, our work serves as a knowledge framework for better understanding message-oriented Web Service development and demonstrates SSDL's practicability in terms of implementation and usability.

The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) is a SOAP-centric language for describing Web Service contracts. SSDL focuses on message abstraction as the building block for creating service-oriented applications and provides an extensible range of protocol frameworks that can be used to describe and formally model Web Service interactions. SSDL's natural alignment with service-oriented design principles intuitively suggests that it encourages the creation of applications that adhere to this architectural paradigm. Given the lack of tools and empirical data for using SSDL as part of Web Services-based SOAs, we identified the need to investigate its practicability and usefulness through empirical work. To that end we have developed Soya, a programming model and runtime environment for creating and executing SSDL-based Web Services. On the one hand, Soya provides straightforward programming abstractions that foster message-oriented thinking. On the other hand, it leverages contemporary tooling (i.e. Windows Communication Foundation) with SSDL-related runtime functionality and semantics. In this thesis, we describe the design and architecture of Soya and show how it makes it possible to use SSDL as an alternative and powerful metadata language without imposing unrealistic burdens on application developers. In addition, we use Soya and SSDL in a case study which provides a set of initial empirical results with respect to SSDL's strengths and drawbacks. In summary, our work serves as a knowledge framework for better understanding message-oriented Web Service development and demonstrates SSDL's practicability in terms of implementation and usability.