A Tool-Based Software Laboratory for Distributed and Parallel Computing

这是一个建立基于工具的软件实验室的项目， 促进分布式和并行计算的实验研究。 该实验室有三个主要组成部分： 帮助开发分布式和并行算法的工具， 编程语言工作台和可配置的操作系统 内核 长期目标是利用实验室作为一种工具， 解决了设计和使用的几个基本问题， 分布式和并行系统。 这些问题包括 实现并行算法， 架构，理解进程间的原则 通信和同步， 架构，设计系统软件，利用 分布式和并行系统中固有异构性和冗余性 建筑 除了这一长期目标，设计和 建立实验室将允许调查两个 补充问题。 第一，建设强大的 高效工具本身就是一项有趣且具有挑战性的研究 对的 每个工具都必须足够通用，以支持广泛的 应用程序，同时必须有效地实施 广泛的底层架构。 第二，广度 实验室将允许研究系统之间的相互作用， 件. 特别是，如何设计并行的高级工具 算法依赖于语言支持系统，以及这些算法如何 反过来，系统依赖于 内核

This is a project to build a tool-based software laboratory to facilitate experimental research in distributed and parallel computing. The laboratory has three major components: a collection of high-level tools to aid in the development of distributed and parallel algorithms, a programming language workbench, and a configurable operating system kernel. The long term goal is to use the laboratory as a vehicle for addressing several problems fundamental to the design and use of distributed and parallel systems. These problems range from implementing parallel algorithms that exploit alternative architectures, to understanding the principles of interprocess communication and synchronization across a wide spectrum of architectures, to designing system software that exploits the heterogeneity and redundancy inherent in distributed and parallel architectures. In addition to this long term goal, designing and implementing the laboratory will allow investigation of two complementary issues. First, the problem of building powerful and efficient tools is interesting and challenging research in its own right. Each tool must be general enough to support a wide range of applications and at the same time must be efficiently implementable on a wide spectrum of underlying architectures. Second, the breadth of the laboratory will allow study of the interaction between system components. In particular, how high-level tools for designing parallel algorithms depend on the language support systems, and how these systems, in turn, depend on the communication support provided by the kernel.