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

该奖项支持计算机领域的合作研究 由理查德·蒙茨和马里奥 位于洛杉矶的加州大学的杰拉说， （UCLA）与Edmundo de Souza e Silva教授在 巴西里约热内卢的联邦大学和 天主教的Roberto Boisson de Marca教授 大学，也在里约。 他们将开发一个 建模和性能/可靠性环境 分布式计算机通信分析 系统. 我们的目标是让分析师能够 测试新想法，整合新技术， 为特定应用领域量身定制的接口。 将开发新的解决方案， 融入到环境中。 State-of-the-art 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 独立利益。 里约的两所大学目前正在建设一个 分布式系统研究实验室。 它 将包含强大的工作站， 局域网。 在加州大学洛杉矶分校， 正在开发建模环境。 美国开发的理论模型将显示 巴西在建筑工具方面应遵循的方向 进行建模和分析， 合作努力将联合收割机 两个活跃和富有成效的群体， 都是 软件开发工作将进行 在这两个国家， 将建立分析求解器， 计划建议博士来自巴西和 美国

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.