Japan Long-Term Visit: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Computing

该奖项将支持亚利桑那大学的Richard D.Schlichting博士与东京工业大学的片山拓也博士进行为期七个月的合作研究。他们将调查容错分布式系统所涉及的高级设计过程，并将尝试开始开发编程环境，以促进此类系统软件的实施和测试。分布式系统中特别感兴趣的问题包括分布式混合语言编程的构造；混合编程语言中处理故障的高级方法的开发；以及容错程序的验证。除其他问题外，这些问题将在本研究中得到解决。日本合作者在语言翻译、软件设计和编程环境方面的专业知识将有力地补充美国首席调查员在分布式和容错计算方面的专业知识，而东京工业大学正在进行的分布式计算项目将协同促进这项工作的成功。

This award will support Dr. Richard D. Schlichting of the University of Arizona to conduct collaborative research for seven months with Dr. Takuya Katayama of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. They will investigate the high-level design processes that are involved in fault-tolerant distributed systems, and will attempt to begin development of a programming environment to facilitate implementation and testing of software for such systems. Problems of particular interest in distributed systems include that of the construction of distributed mixed-language programming; the development of a high-level approach to handling failure in mixed programming languages; and the validation of fault-tolerant programs. These problems, among others, will be addressed in this research. The Japanese collaborator's expertise in language translation, software design, and programming environments will strongly complement the U.S. Principal Investigator's expertise in distributed and fault- tolerant computing, and ongoing projects in distributed computing at the Tokyo Institute of Technology will synergistically contribute to the success of this work.