CISE Research Instrumentation: Exploiting Mixed PerformanceCharacteristics: A Heterogeneous Hypercube System

这项奖励是为了购买两个80386和两个i860节点、两个磁盘驱动器、I/O控制器和16MB内存来升级英特尔IPSC/2超级立方体。该设备将支持开发试验台环境，以支持研究项目，包括验证高度复杂的协议，利用综合关系文本和图像数据库开发并行性，开发硬件设计功能模拟器，以及描述自然场景中背景杂乱的特征。乔治梅森大学计划升级现有的英特尔iPSC/2超立方体设施，以实现对异质、紧密耦合的多重计算的研究。拟议的设备将用于为需要大量数据传输的应用程序开发算法。

This award is to purchase two 80386 and two i860 nodes, two disk drives, I/O controller and 16MB memory to upgrade an Intel iPSC/2 hypercube. The equipment will support the development of a test-bed environment to support research projects including the verification of highly-complex protocols, the exploitation of parallelism with an integrated relational textual and image database, the development of a hardware design functional simulator, and the characterization of background clutter in natural scenes. George Mason University plans to upgrade an existing Intel iPSC/2 hypercube facility to enable research in heterogeneous, tightly-coupled multicomputing. The proposed equipment will be used to develop algorithms for applications requiring large data transfer.