Acquisition of Equipment for Research Concerning High Band Width Distribution Computing

小行星9413854 购置的设备将作为一个试验台，用于研究使用高带宽互连的分布式计算的各个方面。 拟议的研究有三个组成部分：工作站接口到高带宽网络使用自定义接口;开发系统软件，利用高速链路;和探索的应用程序，利用高带宽网络的能力。 拟购置的设备包括高端工作站、光纤高速连接的定制接口部件和多媒体应用的视频/音频外围设备。 研究试验床的具体项目包括：（1）高速链路的物理接口设计、内核级通信原语的底层协议设计和可靠分布式计算所需的操作系统服务的开发;（2）实现并行计算的分布式共享存储环境的软件设计;（3）使用一组紧密耦合的协调过程的客户机/服务器计算的新范例的研究：（4）分布式数据库中信息检索和浏览的各个方面的研究;以及（5）探索满足分布式应用的实时约束的问题，例如多媒体会议和使用分布式光线跟踪的场景渲染。 ***

9413854 Aggarwal The acquired equipment will serve as a testbed for research on various aspects of distributed computing using high bandwidth interconnections. There are three components to the proposed research: interfacing workstations to high bandwidth networks using custom interfaces; development of systems software to capitalize on the high-speed links; and exploration of applications that exploit the capabilities of the high bandwidth network. The equipment to be acquired includes high-end workstations, custom interface components for fiber-optic based high-speed links, and video/audio peripherals for multi-media applications. Specific projects involving the research testbed are: (1) physical interface design to the high-speed links, design of low-level protocols for kernel level communication primitives and the development of the necessary operating systems services for reliable distributed computing; (2) design of software to implement a distributed shared memory environment for parallel computing; (3) investigation of a new paradigm for client/server computing using a set of tightly coupled coordinating processes; (4) investigation of various aspects of information retrieval and browsing in distributed databases; and (5) exploration of issues in meeting real-time constraints for distributed applications such as multi-media conferencing and rendering of scenes using distributed ray tracing. ***