CISE Research Instrumentation: A Network of Workstations for High Performance Computing

9617315 Das，赤塔，R. 宾夕法尼亚州立大学 CISE研究仪器：高性能计算工作站网络 该仪器赠款资助购买8个UltraEthernet工作站和一个8端口Myrinet交换机，以在宾夕法尼亚州立大学计算机科学与工程系建立一个工作站网络（NOW）实验室。 NOW实验室将被用作几个研究项目的实验平台，其中特别包括以下四个项目： - 为工作站网络提供高效的通信支持 - 高性能地理信息系统 - 站点网络上的索引缓存 - 并行应用程序的通信特性 第一个项目的重点是获得有效的软件机制，为并行应用程序提供低延迟和高带宽的通信。 第二个跨学科研究项目计划在NOW平台上开发高性能时态地理信息系统（GIS）。 第三个项目建议使用客户端-服务器架构来检查数据库性能问题。 最后一个项目的目的是通过直接执行不同的应用程序，模拟几个网络架构，并开发一个更快的执行驱动的仿真环境的NOW平台上的并行算法的通信行为的特征。

9617315 Das, Chita, R. Sivasubramaniam, Anand Pennsylvania State University CISE Research Instrumentation: A Network of Workstations for High Performance Computing This instrumentation grant funds the purchase of 8 UltraSPARC workstations and an 8-port Myrinet switch to set up a Network of Workstations (NOW) laboratory at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. The NOW laboratory is to be used as the experimental platform for several research projects, including in particular the following four: -Efficient Communication Support for a Network of Workstations -High Performance Geographical Information Systems -Index Caching on a Network of Stations -Communication Characterization of Parallel Applications The first project focuses on deriving efficient software mechanisms for providing low latency and high bandwidth communication for parallel applications. The second interdisciplinary research project plans to develop a High Performance Temporal Geographical information System (GIS) on the NOW platform. The third project proposes to examine database performance issues using a client-server architecture. The last project aims at characterizing the communication behavior of parallel algorithms by direct execution of different applications, simulating several network architectures, and developing a faster execution-driven simulation environment on the NOW platform.