US-Egypt Cooperative Research: RAMSys: Collaborative Metacomputing System

美埃合作研究：RAMSys：协作元计算系统

• 批准号: 0138760
• 负责人: Ian Greenshields
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0138760&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Egypt; Cooperative; Research; RAMSys

0138760GreenshieldsDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project by Dr. Ian Greenshields and Dr. Reda Ammar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, and Dr. Ayman El-Dessouki, President of the Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt. They propose to do research, which seeks to establish the ERI in Cairo as a Center of Excellence in Egypt in grid computing, linking Egyptian and US computation resources. The project will include three phases: an establishment phase, in which a small US-Egyptian cluster is established at ERI, together with extant grid middleware; an educational phase, in which they will jointly create an on-line educational resource for Egyptian (and also for U.S.) scientists regarding grid computing; and a research phase, in which they will exercise the small clusters with a collaborative project in computational medicine to assess loading characteristics relative to time differences and the effect of low bandwidth network connections relative to problem granularity and the ratio of compute time to data transfer time.Scope: The aggregation of widely distributed computing resources into a seamless massively parallel virtual machine (grid computer) has the potential for providing cost-effective supercomputing and for encouraging international scientific collaboration by the sharing of data in a massive virtual data space. However, scientists in developing countries tend not to have access either to massive grid computers or to the kind of IT support which allows them to exploit inexpensive clusters of commodity workstations as local nodes within a collaborative grid. The proposed development can provide the Egyptian scientific community with a medium-scale Grid computer, and because of the time differences between Egypt and the U.S., machines at U.S. sites which collaborate with Egyptian scientists can be harnessed by Egypt during the off-hours at the U.S. end, and the same holds for U.S. use of Egyptian machines during off-hours at the Egyptian end. The US PI and the Egyptian collaborator have extensive experience in this area of research. One graduate student from the University of Connecticut will work on the project in Egypt. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual scientific interest.

0138760Greenshields描述：该奖项旨在支持康涅狄格州斯托尔斯市康涅狄格大学计算机科学与工程系 Ian Greenshields 博士和 Reda Ammar 博士以及埃及开罗电子研究所 (ERI) 所长 Ayman El-Dessouki 博士的合作项目。他们提议进行研究，旨在将开罗的 ERI 建立为埃及网格计算卓越中心，连接埃及和美国的计算资源。该项目将包括三个阶段：建立阶段，在 ERI 建立一个小型的美国-埃及集群以及现有的网格中间件；教育阶段，他们将共同为埃及（以及美国）科学家创建有关网格计算的在线教育资源；在研究阶段，他们将通过计算医学合作项目来锻炼小集群，以评估相对于时间差异的负载特性以及相对于问题粒度和计算时间与数据传输时间之比的低带宽网络连接的影响。范围：将广泛分布的计算资源聚合到无缝的大规模并行虚拟机（网格计算机）中，有可能提供具有成本效益的超级计算并鼓励 通过在巨大的虚拟数据空间中共享数据来进行国际科学合作。然而，发展中国家的科学家往往无法使用大型网格计算机或 IT 支持，从而使他们能够利用廉价的商品工作站集群作为协作网格内的本地节点。 拟议的开发可以为埃及科学界提供中型网格计算机，并且由于埃及和美国之间的时差，与埃及科学家合作的美国站点的机器可以在美国端的非工作时间被埃及利用，同样的情况也适用于美国在埃及端的非工作时间使用埃及机器。美国PI和埃及合作者在这一研究领域拥有丰富的经验。康涅狄格大学的一名研究生将在埃及从事该项目。 该提案符合 INT 支持共同科学兴趣领域合作研究的目标。