CAREER: Realizing Cost-effective Parallel Systems Using an Application-driven Approach

并行计算对科学进步和经济发展正变得越来越重要。为了让并行计算取得成功，我们需要构建能够在真实应用程序上提供高性能的机器。该项目试图测量工作站网络上的应用程序性能，并实施应用程序以容忍此类网络中的高延迟。正在研究的最初应用来自计算生物学和地理信息系统。在本项目开发的研究和课程中，将强调软件、体系结构和应用程序主题的整合。

Parallel computing is becoming increasingly important to scientific advancement and economic development. For parallel computation to succeed we need to build machines that deliver high performance on real-world applications. This project attempts to measure application performance on networks of workstations and to implement applications to tolerate the high latencies in such networks. The initial applications under study come from computational biology and from geographic information systems. The integration of software, architectural, and applications topics will be emphasized both in research and in courses developed in this project.