CAREER: Affinity and Scheduling for the Computational Grid

国家计算系统网格的设计和实现已经成为计算机和计算科学家可以达到的目标。为了更好地利用这些由地理上分散的机器、仪器和数据存储组成的资源，需要更好的调度和资源管理技术。这个项目的重点是将应用程序的需求与网格上的资源或资源集的功能相匹配。这通常被称为确定应用程序与资源的关联。这项研究将使目前使用的民间传说正规化，以增加那些经验比当前用户少的应用科学家对网格的可访问性。语言规范的开发工作将继续进行，以描述当前所需的应用程序和资源，同时也具有未来应用程序所需的可扩展性。然后将其用作基于案例的推理专家系统的索引结构。这个项目还有一个扩展的教育部分。作为将西北大学的计算机科学教育扩展到系统领域和跨学院倡议的一部分，我们计划开设一门实验系统课程，使用并行分布式调度的思想作为对实际系统、实验和团队合作的更大视角的基础。这门以项目为导向的课程将重点教授学生当前并行分布式调度的工作和应用。此外，还将启动一个以计算机科学领域的女性研究人员为主题的新系列研讨会，以帮助鼓励女学生继续从事计算机科学领域的职业。

The design and implementation of a national computing systems grid has become areachable goal for both computer and computational scientists. In order to better use thissuite of resources, consisting of geographically disperse machines, instruments, and datastorage, better scheduling and resource management techniques are needed.This project concentrates on the issue of matching the requirements of an applicationto the capabilities of a resource or set of resources on the grid. This is often referred to as determining the affinity of an application for a resource. The research will formalizethe folklore currently used in order to increase the accessibility of the grid to thoseapplication scientists that have less experience than current users. Work willcontinue in the development of a language specification to describe both applicationsand resources as needed today, but with the extensibility needed for future applications aswell. This will then be used as an indexing structure into a case-based reasoning expertsystem.This project also has an extended educational portion to it. As a part of the effort toexpand Northwestern's Computer Science education in the systems area and a cross-schoolinitiative, we plan to offer a course in experimental systems using ideas in paralleldistributed scheduling as the basis for a larger view into practical systems,experimentation, and teamwork. This project-oriented class will be focused aroundteaching students about current parallel distributed scheduling efforts and applications.In addition, a new seminar series will be started featuring women researchers incomputer science to help encourage female students to continue with careers in computerscience.