US-Brazil Cooperative Research on A Modeling Environment forPerformance/Reliability Analysis of Distributed Systems

该奖项支持加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的Richard Muntz和Mario Gerla，以及巴西里约热内卢联邦大学的Edmundo de Souza e Silva教授和天主教大学的Roberto Boisson de Marca教授在计算机系统方面的合作研究。也在b里约热内卢。他们将为分布式计算机通信系统的建模和性能/可靠性分析开发一个环境。目标是让分析人员能够测试新想法，结合新技术并构建针对特定应用领域的接口。新的解决方法将被开发并融入到环境中。最先进的解决方案技术也将得到实施。分布式系统问题的分析研究将使用新的环境进行，这将有助于指导其设计，除了有自己的独立兴趣。b里约热内卢的两所大学目前正在建设一个分布式系统研究实验室。它将整合由局域网连接的强大工作站。在加州大学洛杉矶分校，一个开发建模环境的大型项目正在进行中。在美国开发的理论模型将为巴西在构建执行建模和分析的工具方面提供方向，以便这种合作努力将两个活跃和富有成效的小组的互补工作结合起来，并对双方都有益。软件开发工作将在两国开展，将建立对象和分析求解器库，并计划为来自巴西和美国的博士生提供建议

This award supports cooperative research in computer systems to be conducted by Richard Muntz and Mario Gerla of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) together with Prof. Edmundo de Souza e Silva at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Prof. Roberto Boisson de Marca of the Catholic University, also in Rio. They will develop an environment for modeling and performance/reliability analysis of distributed computer communication systems. The goal is to give the analyst the ability to test new ideas, incoporate new techniques and build interfaces tailored to particular application areas. New solution methods will be developed to be incorporated into the environment. State-of-the-art solution techniques will be implemented as well. Analytic studies of distributed system problems will be performed using the new environment which will help guide its design in addition to having their own independent interest. The two universities in Rio are currently building a Laboratory for the Study of Distributed Systems. It will incorporate powerful work stations linked by a local area network. At UCLA a large project is underway to develop modeling environments. Theoretical modeling developed in the U.S. will show directions to be followed in Brazil in building tools to perform modeling and analysis so that this cooperative effort will combine the complementary work of two active and productive groups and be beneficial to both. Software development efforts will be carried out in both countries, libraries of objects and analytical solvers will be be built up and there are plans to advise Ph.D. students from both Brazil and the U.S.