Bringing High Performance to the CORBA Component Model Alexandre Denis, Christian Perez, Thierry Priol and Andre Ribes High performance component-based software infrastructures, such as Padico, are in particular very well suited to dealing with the complexity of executing code coupling applications on Grids. Padico embodies two important features: an extension of the CORBA component model (GridCCM) to support parallel components with distributed data and a runtime infrastructure (PadicoTM) that enables network transparency letting components to communicate with each other independently of the underlying networks (SAN, LAN, WAN) or protocols.