Computer Engineering Research Equipment

正在购置三台微型vax处理器，用于纯模拟/仿真和一个活跃的分布式数据库系统试验台。这些机器被放置在一个专门的分布式处理实验室，并联网在一起。该设施的计算机工程研究大致分为两类，分布式计算机系统和超大规模集成电路体系结构设计。该设备支持的分布式计算机系统的工作包括：理解不同参数和组件对分布式数据库系统性能的影响；分布式计算机系统调度算法的设计与评价局域网信道接入协议的设计与评价。

Three micro-VAX processors are being acquired to be used both for pure simulation/emulation and for an active distributed database systems testbed. These machines are placed in a Dedicated Distributed Processing Lab and are networked together. Computer engineering research at this facility broadly falls into two categories, distributed computer systems and design of VLSI architectures. Work in distributed computer systems supported by this equipment includes efforts in: understanding the effects that different parameters and components have on the performance of distributed database systems; the design and evaluation of scheduling algorithms for distributed computer systems; and the design and evaluation of channel access protocols for local area networks.