A Laboratory for Parallel Programming

本建议是建立平行的第一阶段， 应用程序和软件实验室，将是一个组成部分， 印第安纳州大学创新计算机中心 应用（亚洲信任会议）。 该实验室将建立在 一个已建立的中心的资源，以提供一个设施， 训练有素的工作人员将直接与来自一个 设计新的并行应用程序， 研究专门的并行工具的有效性 编程、程序重组和性能可视化。 该实验室的研究使命将是使用域 真实的世界的应用程序来研究设计的问题， 可扩展并行软件。 我们的具体研究项目 （1）应用和评估现有的并行 编程工具在物理和社会中的真实的应用 以理工科为重 (2)为了研究更高层次的效用，对象 并行设计中的面向抽象机制 应用. 特别是，我们将使用一个新的编程 基于面向对象设计的方法，使我们能够 编译各种大规模并行的程序 建筑 (3)为了扩展表演的艺术水平 分析工具，以便他们能够预测性能， 机器和问题的大小是缩放的。 这涉及到设计 新一代算法可视化工具， 结合了并行复杂性模型和静态和动态 用机器分析模型分析并行程序 行为

This proposal is the first phase in establishing a Parallel Applications and Software Laboratory that will be a component of the Indiana University Center for Innovative Computer Applications (CICA). This laboratory will build upon the resources of an established center to provide a facility where a staff of trained people will work directly with scientists from a variety of disciplines to design new parallel applications and to study the effectiveness of specialized tools for parallel programming, program restructuring and performance visualization. The research mission of the laboratory will be to use the domain of real world applications to study the problem of designing scalable parallel software. Our specific research projects for this laboratory are: (1) To apply and evaluate existing parallel programming tools to real applications in the physical and social sciences. (2) To investigate the utility of higher level, object oriented abstraction mechanisms in the design of parallel applications. In particular, we will use a new programming methodology based on object oriented design that will allow us to compile programs for a wide variety of massively parallel architectures. (3) To extend the state of the art in performance analysis tools so that they are able to predict performance as machine and problem sizes are scaled. This involves the design of a new generation of algorithm visualization tools that incorporates parallel complexity models and static and dynamic analysis of parallel programs with analytical models of machine behavior.