US-France (INRIA) Cooperative Research: Active Middleware Grids

这项为期三年的美国-法国（INRIA）合作研究奖支持航空航天公司的克雷格·李和南加州大学的博士生埃里克·科访问法国。它为航空航天公司在主动网络和网格计算领域的ITR（信息技术研究）奖增加了一个国际维度。在这项双边合作中，Laurent Lefevre和里昂高等师范学院INRIA （Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique）的研究人员将与Aerospace Corporation合作，开发一种通用基础设施，用于支持主动网络或拓扑感知的中间件服务，这些服务可以从网格应用程序中轻松访问。INRIA直接参与了e-Toile项目，该项目部署了一个法国实验网格平台，包括对服务质量和可靠多播的主动中间件支持。e-Toile网格为评估中间件原型提供了一个测试平台，以实现以下目标：(1)减少通信需求；(2)基于内容的路由通信；(3)分布式仿真的兴趣和时间管理；(4)可靠的组播、事件服务；(5)网络质量服务。美法项目利用了法国一个独特的电网试验台，该试验台在法国分布广泛。拓扑感知中间件服务适用于许多不同的领域，从分布模拟到自组织网络和网格。由于具有如此广泛的适用性，这些通信服务最终将被广泛的社会阶层所使用。

0334238LeeThis three-year U.S. France (INRIA) cooperative research awards supports visits to France by Craig Lee of Aerospace Corporation and Eric Coe, a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. It adds an international dimension to Aerospace's ITR (Information Technology Research) award in active networks and grid computing.In this bilateral effort, Laurent Lefevre and researchers at INRIA (Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, will work with Aerospace Corporation on a general infrastructure for active network-enabled or topology aware middleware services that are easily accessible from grid applications. INRIA is directly involved in the e-Toile project to deploy a French experimental grid platform to include active middleware support for quality of service and reliable multicast. The e-Toile grid provides a test bed to evaluate middleware prototypes for (1) reducing communication demand; (2) content-based routing communication; (3) interest and time management for distributed simulation; (4) reliable multicast, event services: and (5) network quality services. The U.S.-France project takes advantage of access to a unique e-grid test bed with a wide geographical distribution in France. Topology aware middleware services are applicable to many different domains from distribution simulation to ad-hoc networks and grids. With such wide applicability, these communications services eventually will be used by a wide segment of society.