Scientific User Interfaces for Parallel Computing (Women, Minority and Handicapped Engineering Research Asistant Supplement)

该项目将设计和实现用于科学和工程计算的用户界面系统，特别强调并行计算环境。这项工作涉及几个领域的活动：图形交互和可视化，计算策略，以及计算流体动力学领域的特定研究。后者是界面研究的“试验台”。总体目标是为工程师和科学家提供高性能的交互式计算环境，通过结合交互式图形，高性能（并行）计算，以及允许物理问题输入的智能界面，允许原型探索（“如果？”实验）。而不是程序化的表达。对用户界面的研究将通过添加诸如基于并行性的问题检测（例如体现在奇异扰动问题中）等特征来增强我们当前的版本。交互式图形工作将集中于基于约束的面向对象系统。重点将放在模型-视图-控制器范例上，作为用户与其原型模型交互的基础，以实现计算转向。计算策略的研究主要集中在面向对象的并行计算等新的并行计算模型，以及开发新的并行计算库模块来支持工程计算。特定领域（计算流体动力学，或CFD）的工作是针对非线性动力学问题（如拉格朗日湍流动力学）的并行计算，并集成到CFD数值探索的交互式环境中。这项研究是Rutgers CAIP*并行计算实验室正在进行的工作的延续，并被提议作为NSF-CAIP联合项目。*工业生产力计算机辅助中心。

This project will design and implement user interface systems for scientific and engineering computation, with special emphasis on the parallel computing environment. The work involves activity in several areas: graphical interaction and visualization, computation strategies, and domain specific research in computational fluid dynamics. The latter area serves as the "test bed" for the interface research. The overall objective is to provide the engineer and scientist with high performances, interactive computation environments that allow prototyping exploration ("what if?" experimentation) by combining interactive graphics, high performance (parallel) computation, with an intelligent interface that allows problem input in physical, rather than programmatic expression. Research on the user interface will enhance our present version by addition of such features as detection of problem based parallelism (such as embodied in singular perturbation problems). The interactive graphics work will concentrate on constraint based object-oriented systems. Emphasis is to be placed on the Model-View-Controller paradigm as a basis for the user's interaction with his prototype model to effect computational steering. The computation strategies research is concentrating on new models for parallel computing, such as object-oriented parallel computation, and the development of new parallel computation library modules to support engineering computation. The domain specific (computational fluid dynamics, or CFD) work is directed at parallel computing for nonlinear dynamics problems (such as Lagrangian turbulence dynamics), and the integration into interactive environments for CFD numerical exploration. This research is as continuation of on-going efforts in the Rutgers CAIP* Parallel Computing Lab, and is proposed as a joint NSF-CAIP program. *CAIP (Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity).