MDC: Collaborative Computing Frameworks for Natural SciencesResearch

9527186 Sunderam提议的研究涉及使能技术支持自然科学中基于协作、分布式计算机的问题解决。这项工作的研究重点将放在科学学科中的问题解决环境，以及多模态分布式系统中的计算机科学问题上。该项目将由协作研究和解决自然科学问题的需求驱动，即化学、物理、生物化学和相关领域。在这些以及其他基于实验室/仪器的科学中，越来越普遍的研究方法涉及到对计算、交互、数据图形显示和数据存储的使用和依赖。该项目的总体目标是发展一个虚拟分布式计算框架，该框架集成支持人类AV通信、高性能异构计算和分布式数据管理设施。这项研究将包括对计算转换的分析和对科学仪器产生的结果的图形化观察，以及在协作分布式环境中开发方法和工具，以增强科学努力的实验结果分析阶段。预计该项目最终将形成一套切实可行的软件工具，以促进这种协作框架。

9527186 Sunderam The proposed research address enabling technologies to support collaborative, distributes computer-based problem solving in the natural sciences. The research emphasis of this effort will be on problem solving environments in scientific disciplines, and on computer science issues in multimodal distributed systems. the project will be driven by the requirements of collaborative research and problem-solving in natural sciences, i.e. chemistry, physics, biochemistry, and allied fields. In these, and other laboratory/instrument based sciences, an increasingly common research methodology involves the use and dependence upon computation, interaction, graphical display of data, and data storage. The overall goal of this project is to evolve a virtual distributed computing framework that integrally supports human AV communication, high performance heterogeneous computing, and distributed data management facilities. this research will involve analysis of computational transformations and graphical viewing of results produced by scientific instruments, and the development of methodologies and tools to enhance the experiment-results-analysis phases of scientific endeavor, in a collaborative distributed setting. It is expected that this project will culminate in a tangible suite of software tools that facilitate such collaborative frameworks.