"Virtual Supercomputing": High Speed Wide-Area Networks for Computational Applications

“虚拟超级计算”：用于计算应用的高速广域网

• 批准号: 9632677
• 负责人: Eugene Williams
• 金额: $ 86.22万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9632677&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Virtual; Supercomputing; Speed; Wide; Area

9632677 Williams Computational researchers in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia (a.k.a. the 6-PAC) have formed the South East Partnership to Share Computational Resources (SEPSCoR). The supercomputers located in each of these states will be linked by high speed wide-area networks to form a more powerful "virtual supercomputer", which will be focused on the solution of highly intractable computational problems, such as the modeling and molecular dynamics of complex materials. This shared resource will be available to all researchers who are approved by the consortium. The high-speed networks which will make this possible will be managed by a partnership with the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and the networking Corporation, Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). This award will fund the start-up costs of this networking partnership in its first year, after which, a full maintenance proposal will be submitted to the Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure. The net result of this project will be the demonstration of how computational science can be advanced through the utilization of an advanced networking infrastructure. The initial projects using this interstate facility will be in the area of computational materials research, but in the long term, other numerically-intensive areas will benefit as well.

小威廉姆斯9632677 亚拉巴马、肯塔基州、路易斯安那州、密西西比、南卡罗来纳州和西弗吉尼亚州的计算研究人员（又名： 6-PAC）已经形成了东南合作伙伴共享计算资源（SEPSCoR）。 位于每个州的超级计算机将通过高速广域网连接起来，形成一个更强大的“虚拟超级计算机”，它将专注于解决高度棘手的计算问题，例如复杂材料的建模和分子动力学。该共享资源将提供给所有经联盟批准的研究人员。使这成为可能的高速网络将由东南大学研究协会（SURA）和网络公司Bolt，Beranek和纽曼（BBN）合作管理。这笔赠款将为这一网络伙伴关系第一年的启动费用提供资金，之后将向网络和通信研究及基础设施司提交一份全面的维护提案。该项目的最终结果将是演示如何通过利用先进的网络基础设施来推进计算科学。使用这个州际设施的最初项目将在计算材料研究领域，但从长远来看，其他数字密集型领域也将受益。