Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Wide Area Scalable Infrastructure for Data Intensive Computing: Consortium Proposal

9601861 Hollebeek, Robert Smith， Jonathon宾夕法尼亚大学学术研究基础设施：开发用于数据密集型计算的广域可扩展基础设施：联盟提案该学术研究基础设施奖支持购买设备以增强国家可扩展集群项目。这些设备将被安置在3所大学，以进一步发展一个国家元计算中心。该设备由大型快速磁盘阵列、高性能计算机集群增强、ATM网络切换到OC-12功能、网络连接和相关软件组成。该设备支持的研究项目包括：数据密集型的应用计算，包括粒子物理数据的数据挖掘、语言学数据联盟的数字图书馆开发、天体物理学的数字图书馆开发、引力透镜数据图、银河大结构模拟以及数字和统计数字图书馆的开发。2. 实时计算应用，包括收集简化的天文数据、医学成像和远程呈现。3. 并行计算密集型应用包括液晶成像、相变模拟、晶体表面计算研究和涡流研究。4. 高速网络研究，包括网络条带化和在高性能存储器层次结构中包含第三层存储。5. 可扩展对象存储的计算机科学研究，数据的缓存、转换和复制研究，以及集群管理的软件工具。

9601861 Hollebeek, Robert Smith, Jonathon University of Pennsylvania Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Wide Area Scaleable Infrastructure for Data Intensive Computing: Consortium Proposal This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the acquisition of equipment to enhance the National Scaleable Cluster Project. The equipment will be sited at 3 universities to further the development of a national meta computing center. The equipment consists of large fast disk arrays, high performance computer cluster enhancements, ATM network switches to OC-12 capabilities, network connections, and associated software. The research projects supported by the equipment include: 1. Applications computing that is data intensive including data mining of particle physics data, digital library development of the linguistics data consortium, digital library development of astrophysics, gravitational lenses data maps, galactic large structure simulations, and the development of numerical and statistical digital libraries. 2. Real time computing applications including collecting reduced astronomical data, medical imaging, and telepresence. 3. Parallel compute intensive applications including liquid crystal imaging, phase transition simulations, crystal surface computational studies, and vortex flow studies. 4. High speed network research including network striping and the inclusion of tertiary store in high performance memory hierarchies. 5. Computer science research on scaleable object stores, research on caching, transforming, and replicating data, and software tools for cluster management.