CISE Research Instrumentation: High Performance Computing and Application Laboratory

9617375 Mohapatra，Prasant Sapatnekar，Sachin S.Iowa州立大学CISE研究仪器：高性能计算和应用实验室这项研究仪器赠款使爱荷华州立大学电气和计算机工程系能够购买设备，用于开发一个致力于支持计算机和信息科学与工程研究的高性能计算和应用实验室。该设施将用于由国家科学基金会CEISE部门资助的以下研究项目：-并行计算机的集成处理器管理方案，-在工作站网络上有效地利用空闲/空闲容量，-可扩展并行计算机的硬件多播路由技术，-高性能电路的设计优化，-周期性实时应用的优化合成。调查人员建议购买8台工作站，并将它们与现有的4台工作站(通过先前的NSF和其他资金购买)整合，以建立一个由12台工作站组成的集群。这些工作站将通过高速以太网主干连接。列出的项目所需的耗时的模拟可以在工作站集群上并行并高效运行。目前，爱荷华州立大学的计算机工程项目没有专门用于支持研究生研究活动的计算实验室。该大学和系高度支持建立这样的设施，并致力于计算机工程研究计划的发展。

9617375 Mohapatra, Prasant Sapatnekar, Sachin S. Iowa State University CISE Research Instrumentation: High Performance Computing and Application Laboratory This research instrumentation grant enables the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University to purchase equipment for developing a high-performance computing and applications laboratory dedicated to supporting research in computer and information science and engineering. The facility will be used for the following research projects funded by the CISE division of the NSF: - Integrated Processor Management Schemes for Parallel Computers, - Utilizing Idle/Spare Capacity Efficiently on a Network of Workstations, - Hardware Multicast Routing Technique for Scalable Parallel Computers, - Design Optimizations for High-Performance Circuits, - Optimizing Synthesis for Periodic Real-Time Applications. The investigators propose to acquire eight workstations and integrate them with the four existing ones (purchased through prior NSF and other funding) to build a cluster of twelve workstations. These workstations will be connected through a high-speed ethernet backbone. The time-consuming simulations that are required for the listed projects can be parallelized and run efficiently on the workstation cluster. Currently, the Computer Engineering program at Iowa State University does not have a computing laboratory dedicated to support graduate research activities. The University and the Department are highly supportive of building such a facility and are committed to the development of the computer engineering research program.