US-France Cooperative Research (INRIA): Environments and Tools for High Performance Grid-Enabled Scientific Computing

美法合作研究 (INRIA)：高性能网格科学计算的环境和工具

• 批准号: 0309658
• 负责人: Jack Dongarra
• 金额: $ 3.79万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0309658&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; France; Cooperative; Research; INRIA

0309658DongarraFrom its inception, the rapidly growing movement to build "computational grids" to support advanced modeling and simulation in nearly every scientific field requires new environments and tools for high performance, grid-enabled scientific computing. This topic is addressed in the proposed US-France cooperative research project between the University of Tennessee's Innovative Computing Laboratory and the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelism of French National Institute for Informatics and Applied Mathematics (INRIA) and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Led by US and French principal investigators, Jack Dongarra and Frederic Desprez respectively, this collaborative effort extends their prior joint research on a set of tools for portable and efficient parallel scientific software. Over the last few years, their effort led to well-known research software such as LAPACK, Netsolve, and Scilab. The focus areas of their new research effort include: (1) exploration of easy-to-use systems for Grid-enabled computing and ways to combine NetSolve (University of Tennessee) middleware with Scilab (INRIA) to solve problems in Grid computing; (2) creating of self-adapting, grid-aware numerical libraries; (3) building of performance monitoring tools for clusters and grids; and (4) construction of next generation software repositories to deploy scientific software in grid-computing environments. This award represents the US side of a joint proposal to NSF and INRIA. NSF provides travel funds and living expenses to US investigators, postdoctoral researchers and students for visits to France to participate in collaborative research and joint workshops. INRIA supports the visits of French researchers to the United States. The joint activities take advantage of combined US-French expertise in parallel and distributing computing and use of advanced-computer architectures. The project advances NSF's priority area - cyberinfrastructure research and development - which will enable collaboration among scientists and engineers across disciplines and national boundaries.

从一开始，构建“计算网格”以支持几乎所有科学领域的高级建模和模拟的运动迅速发展，需要新的环境和工具来实现高性能、网格启用的科学计算。田纳西大学创新计算实验室与法国国家信息学和应用数学研究所L的信息并行实验室和里昂高等学院之间拟议的美法合作研究项目讨论了这一主题。由美国和法国的主要研究人员Jack Donarra和Frederic Desprez分别领导的这项合作努力扩展了他们之前对一套便携和高效的并行科学软件工具的联合研究。在过去的几年里，他们的努力导致了著名的研究软件，如LAPACK，NetSolve和Scilab。他们的新研究工作的重点领域包括：(1)探索易于使用的网格计算系统，以及如何将NetSolve(田纳西大学)中间件与Scilab(INRIA)相结合以解决网格计算中的问题；(2)创建自适应的、网格感知的数值库；(3)构建集群和网格的性能监控工具；以及(4)构建下一代软件库，以在网格计算环境中部署科学软件。这一奖项代表了美方对NSF和INRIA的联合提议。NSF为美国研究人员、博士后研究人员和学生访问法国参加合作研究和联合研讨会提供旅费和生活费。INRIA支持法国研究人员访问美国。联合活动利用了美国和法国在并行和分布式计算以及使用先进计算机体系结构方面的综合专业知识。该项目推进了NSF的优先领域-网络基础设施研究和开发-这将使科学家和工程师之间跨学科和跨国界的合作成为可能。