CISE Research Infrastructure: SimMillennium: A Large-Scale System of Systems Organized as a Computational Economy for Simulation and Modeling

EIA-9802069 Culler，大卫E.Demmel，詹姆斯W.加州大学伯克利分校SimMillennium是一个大型的集群集群，支持计算科学与工程以及复杂系统设计的新技术研究。 它召集了一个跨学科的社区，在具有深度信息存储和强大服务的计算丰富的环境中工作，思考和学习，通过模拟测试想法，并通过自然行为共享和可视化数据。该项目利用来自英特尔、IBM、微软、Sun和Bay Networks的主要捐赠，构建一个测试平台，将研究人员的台式机扩展到SMP服务器、组集群、大型园区集群和通过千兆网络的新型数据交互设备。 这种连接良好的资源的分布式池将作为计算经济来管理，它自动适应不断变化的用户需求，系统配置和组件故障。 它应该能够在计算算法和编程环境的进步，用于模拟和建模的地震，星星的形成，和技术CAD的系统与深内存层次的求解器。 它将解决新兴高速网络技术的系统设计挑战，同时为大型复杂系统的设计奠定基础。 它将激发新的方式来吸收和互动大量的信息和彼此。

EIA-9802069Culler, David E.Demmel, James W.University of California-BerkeleySimMillennium is a large cluster-of-clusters supporting research in novel techniques for Computational Science and Engineering and for the design of complex systems. It convenes an interdisciplinary community to work, think, and study in a computationally rich environment with deep information stores and powerful services, where ideas are tested through simulation and data is shared and visualized through natural actions. The project leverages major donations from Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and Bay Networks to construct a testbed extending researcher desktops to SMP servers, group clusters, a large campus cluster, and novel data-interaction devices through gigabit networking. This distributed pool of well-connected resources will be managed as a computational economy, which adapts automatically to changing user demand, system configuration, and component failures. It should enable advances in the computational algorithms and programming environments for solvers used in the simulation and modeling of earthquakes, star formation, and technology CAD on systems with deep memory hierarchies. It will address system design challenges of emerging high-speed networking technologies while developing foundations for the design of large, complex systems. It will motivate new ways of assimilating and interacting with large volumes of information and with each other.