MRA: High Performance Computing, Information Serving, and Data Visualization on Clusters of Shared Memory Multiprocessors

9523480伍德沃德提议与美国国家科学基金会元中心合作，开发由共享内存多处理器(SMP)集群组成的新兴超级计算机体系结构的有效使用。将涉及的用途不仅包括高性能计算，而且还包括通过国家信息基础设施提供高性能数据和多媒体服务，以及超大型数据集的科学可视化。在明尼苏达大学一个新的计算科学与工程实验室(LCS&Amp；E)的主持下，一支在集群SMP和密切相关的计算机体系结构方面拥有相当经验的强大研究团队已经组建起来。利用设备和现有基础设施的慷慨长期贷款，该团队将在系统集成和软件开发方面与计算机行业密切合作，并在应用程序开发方面与Metacenter密切合作。由于对这一新的Silicon Graphics架构的共同兴趣，此次MRA将特别与NCSA密切合作。然而，此Metacenter区域联盟的工作最终旨在可移植到其他供应商的集群SMP体系结构实施中，因此应该适用于IBM SP-3(康奈尔)、Cray J90(匹兹堡)以及凸样本(NCSA)。这个MRA团队开发了WGL分辨率的Power Wall显示系统，并在超级计算‘94上进行了演示。LCS&Amp；E团队将通过其最近资助的MRA与NCSA和电子可视化实验室合作，帮助将这项技术应用于这些地点，特别是在超级计算‘95的I-Way(信息广域年)演示中。由于明尼苏达团队在为工作站构建非常高性能的磁盘I/O子系统方面进行了广泛的工作，因此也有望与加州理工大学的并行I/O计划建立有用的关系，这是最近的另一项MRA。最后，LCS&Amp；E团队将与当地市中心高中以及代表明尼苏达州45个学区联盟的TIES组织合作，在明尼苏达州提供K-12课程。

9523480 Woodward A collaboration with the NSF Metacenter to develop effective uses of the emerging supercomputer architecture consisting of a cluster of shared memory multiprocessors (SMP's) is proposed. Uses which will be addressed include not only high performance computing, but also providing high performance data and multimedia services over the National Information Infrastructure and scientific visualization of very large data sets. A strong team of researchers with considerable experience with the clustered SMP and closely related computer architectures has been assembled under the auspices of a new Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCS&E) at the University of Minnesota. Exploiting generous long-term loans of equipment as well as existing infrastructure, this team will work closely with the computer industry on system integration and software development and with the Metacenter on application development. Because of a shared interest in this new Silicon Graphics architecture; this MRA will collaborate especially closely with NCSA. However, the work of this Metacenter Regional Alliance is ultimately intended to be portable to other vendors' implementations of the clustered SMP architecture, and therefore should be applicable to the IBM SP-3 (Cornell), the Cray J90 (Pittsburgh), as well as the Convex Exemplar (NCSA). This MRA team developed the Wgl resolution Power Wall display system and demonstrated it at Supercomputing '94. The LCS&E team will work with NCSA and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory through its recently funded MRA, to help bring this technology into use at those sites and, particularly, at the I-WAY (Information Wide Area Year) demonstration at Supercomputing '95. Because of the Minnesota team's extensive work in building very high performance disk I/O subsystems for workstations, a useful relationship with the Parallel I/O Initiative at Caltech, another recent MRA, is also anticipated. Finally, the LCS&E team will work together with local inner city high schools and with the TIES organization representing a consortium of 45 Minnestoa school districts to provide K-12 outreach throughout the state of Minnesota.