Mapping application-level components into hierarchical systems resources

The appropriate organization of application components and their right mapping into physical resources is funda-mental to fully exploit cutting edge technologies especially when hierarchical architectures are used. We present a new approach to combine application modelling with resource management. The proposed programming model allows the mixing of message-passing and global memory facil-ities and integrates them with the high-level abstractions provided for specifying and organizing application compo-nents and resources. The methodologies and tools we had designed pave the way to build complex systems through the use of coopera-tive applications, executed simultaneously, involving multi-ple users, thus extending the MPMD model. Key words: Multi-networked cluster, resource management, multi-paradigm programming, logical-physical mapping.