High Performance Parallel/Distributed Computing

该奖项支持高性能并行/分布式计算研究的基础设施。该奖项支持购买一台高性能的分布式存储计算机。该奖项还支持程序员开发、维护和分发在该计算机上开发的软件。该基础设施支持的研究有两种形式：计算密集型研究和系统应用研究。计算密集型研究包括计算机视觉、计算机图形学、模拟、3-D动画和计算化学。系统应用研究包括快速操作系统核心服务例程的开发、并行计算活动的编程模型、软件工程环境和分布式存储计算机并行算法的基础研究。

This award supports infrastructure for research in high performance parallel/distributed computing. The award supports the purchase of a high performance distributed memory computer. The award also supports a programmer to develop, maintain, and distribute software developed on this computer. The research supported by this infrastructure is of two forms: compute intensive research and systems applications research. The compute intensive research includes computer vision, computer graphics, simulations, 3-D animation, and computational chemistry. The systems applications research includes developing fast operating system kernal service routines, programming models of parallel computation activities, software engineering environments, and fundamental research on parallel algorithms for distributed memory computers.