National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR):Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST)

应用网络研究国家实验室（NLANR）：分布式应用支持团队（DAST）

• 批准号: 9725292
• 负责人: John Towns
• 金额: $ 76.48万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-11-01 至 2001-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9725292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Laboratory; Applied; Networking; Research

ABSTRACT: NCR9725292 National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR): Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) In 1995, NSF awarded a cooperative agreement for a National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR) providing for engineering, technical support and coordination of the vBNS connections at the supercomputing centers. The purposes of this NLANR team activity were (i) to provide sufficient testing, utilization and measurement of the NSFvBNS to insure that its overall performance was at acceptable levels, (ii) to facilitate the experiments to be performed on the NSFvBNS, and (iii) to provide for the coordination of support activities among the centers. It also provided limited engineering and technical support for general use of the NSFvBNS and provided for the coordination of such activities and facilitated the development at the supercomputing centers of a skilled and distributed network engineering team with a thorough knowledge of the NSFvBNS and its performance capabilities and use for high performance applications. The recently initiated expansion of the NSFvBNS to encourage its use as a "leading edge but stable" platform to enable the development and use of high performance applications by the broader academic research community requires that the original NLANR activities be significantly expanded to encompass support for new users, sites and applications as well as continued measurement and testing of an expanded network. The need for this expansion has defined the NLANR activity into separate awards for three functional areas: the NLANR: Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, aimed at assisting the end users of high-performance applications in maximizing the performance of their applications; the NLANR: National Center for Network Engineering (NCNE), located at Carnegie-Mellon University, aimed at assisting high performance connections campuses in optimizing their network engineeri ng and connectivity; and the NLANR: Measurement and Operational Analysis Team (MOAT), located at the University of California, San, Diego, aimed at measuring and optimizing performance and use of the NSFvBNS and interconnected networks. The three efforts will continue to be be closely coodinated with each other and with the NSFvBNS. The agreement provides for the NLANR: Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) which builds on the NLANR activity and brings to bear NCSA's experience in supporting users of both high performance networks (through NLANR, IWAY, BLANCA, etc.) and complex computing environments (through the NCSA user support structure that serves several thousand users). DAST will place network and software engineers in direct contact with users, develop training materials and the host workshops to facilitate the transfer of expertise in supporting applications to the High Performance Connections end users and user service organizations at their institutions. DAST establishes a central help desk for High Performance Connection award site users with high performance applications to coordinate the routing and resolution of problems related to the vBNS and other networks associated with the High Performance Connections program.

摘要：NCR9725292 应用网络研究国家实验室 (NLANR)：分布式应用支持团队 (DAST) 1995 年，NSF 授予应用网络研究国家实验室 (NLANR) 合作协议，为超级计算中心的 vBNS 连接提供工程、技术支持和协调。 NLANR 团队活动的目的是 (i) 为 NSFvBNS 提供充分的测试、利用和测量，以确保其整体性能处于可接受的水平，(ii) 促进在 NSFvBNS 上进行的实验，以及 (iii) 协调各中心之间的支持活动。它还为 NSFvBNS 的一般用途提供有限的工程和技术支持，并协调此类活动，并促进超级计算中心培养熟练的分布式网络工程团队，该团队对 NSFvBNS 及其性能能力和高性能应用的使用有透彻的了解。 最近发起的 NSFvBNS 扩展旨在鼓励将其用作“前沿但稳定”的平台，以便更广泛的学术研究界能够开发和使用高性能应用程序，这要求显着扩展原始 NLANR 活动，以涵盖对新用户、站点和应用程序的支持以及对扩展网络的持续测量和测试。这种扩展的需要将 NLANR 活动定义为三个功能领域的单独奖项： NLANR：分布式应用程序支持团队 (DAST)，位于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校，旨在帮助高性能应用程序的最终用户最大限度地提高其应用程序的性能； NLANR：国家网络工程中心 (NCNE)，位于卡内基梅隆大学，旨在协助高性能连接校园优化其网络工程和连接； NLANR：测量和操作分析团队 (MOAT)，位于加州大学圣地亚哥分校，旨在测量和优化 NSFvBNS 和互连网络的性能和使用。这三项工作将继续相互密切协调，并与 NSFvBNS 密切协调。 该协议规定了 NLANR：分布式应用程序支持团队 (DAST)，该团队建立在 NLANR 活动的基础上，并利用 NCSA 在支持高性能网络用户（通过 NLANR、IWAY、BLANCA 等）和复杂计算环境（通过为数千用户提供服务的 NCSA 用户支持结构）方面的经验。 DAST 将让网络和软件工程师与用户直接接触，开发培训材料并举办研讨会，以促进将支持应用程序的专业知识传授给高性能连接最终用户及其机构的用户服务组织。 DAST 为具有高性能应用程序的高性能连接奖励站点用户建立了一个中央帮助台，以协调与 vBNS 和与高性能连接计划相关的其他网络相关的问题的路由和解决。