Effective Distributed Computing: A Reliable Objective-Base Environment for Computer Science Research

格鲁吉亚理工学院的云项目是一项研究工作， 一个分布式的基于对象的计算机系统的开发。 这 该奖项将有助于建立一个实验计算机 研究设施，以支持工作，发展云系统，从其 作为一个研究工具，以一个更强大的系统， 支持各种各样的计算研究。 这将涉及 进一步发展云和Unix之间的连接， 在熟悉的环境中提供云的功能;开发- 分布式对象文件系统的部分以支持命名的、永久的 对象;将云内核移植到更现代的机器上;以及， 最后，提供一个分布式操作系统， 内核，支持加载对象迁移等功能 平衡，容错作业调度，全局系统监控 系统，支持多群集结构化，透明复制 物体，以及其他。 云系统也将作为一个试验平台 在多个领域进行的研究，包括环境，软件， 工程和容错。 该项目将利用新的 共享内存多处理器系统和一些新的工作站， 根据补助金以及以前可用的设备获得 在格鲁吉亚理工大学 根据该奖项，云项目将 同时，还大力拓展了其他研究领域。 预计研究生课程也将继续扩大 从而提供所需的额外的博士水平的计算机科学 毕业生

The Clouds Project at Georgia Tech is a research effort directed toward the development of a distributed object-based computer system. This award will aid in the establishment of an experimental computer research facility to support work to evolve the Clouds system from its current status as a research tool to a more robust system that will support a wide variety of computing research. This will involve further development of the connection between Clouds and Unix so as to provide the features of Clouds within a familiar environment; develop- ment of a distributed object filing system to support named, permanent objects; porting the Clouds kernel to more modern machines; and, eventually, providing a distributed operating system on top of the kernel, supporting such features as object migration for load balancing, a fault-tolerant job scheduler, global system monitoring systems, support for multi-cluster structuring, transparent replication of objects, and others. The Clouds system will also serve as a testbed for ongoing research in several areas including environments, software engineering and fault tolerance. The project will utilize a new shared-memory multiprocessor system and a number of new workstations to be acquired under the grant as well as equipment previously available at Georgia Tech. Under this award, the Clouds project will be substantially expanded and other research areas strengthened as well. It is also expected that the graduate program will continue to expand thereby providing additional needed doctoral level computer science graduates.