U.S. - Pakistan International Planning Visit: Economical Computing Substrate for Developing Regions

美国-巴基斯坦国际规划访问：发展中地区的经济计算基板

• 批准号: 0940048
• 负责人: Ali Butt
• 金额: $ 0.44万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Pakistan; International; Planning; Visit

0940048 ButtDescription: This award is to support a planning visit by Dr. Ali Butt, Computer Science Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. The foreign collaborator is Dr. Umar Saif at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. The PI will have in-person interactions with the foreign collaborators to evaluate the available resources, facilities and to interview prospective graduate researchers, and assess the feasibility of conducting the proposed research. The purpose is to finalize plans for a collaborative proposal to be submitted in response to NSF/CNS later in 2009. The foreign scientist, Dr. Umar Saif is a highly accomplished young scientist who has research experience at a prestigious US university. Saif?s research is on ubiquitous computing, operating and distributed systems, mobile systems, high-speed routing architectures and the impact of IT in developing world countries. These skills complement the PI?s expertise in developing robust economical resource-sharing systems, grid computing, and system-level optimizations for data-intensive computing. Intellectual Merit The increasing reliance on computers in our daily lives is driving the demand for easily accessible computing resources. Providing computational, storage, and network resources to sustain modern applications is a challenge, especially in under-privileged areas where economical constraints limit even basic computer services. The projected research aims to design an economical computing substrate that transparently harvests unused resources from well-provisioned setups to support applications of under-privileged users. Use of such a substrate can also be employed when acquisition of dedicated resources is not justified, e.g., academic experimentation. Broader Impact Research results from the proposed project will have a broad impact on wide-ranging computer use, as diverse as basic computing in under-privileged regions, academic experimentation, and mitigating resource wastage in enterprise computing. The collaboration will open new horizons for collaborative research, and will enable identification of specific research problems faced by users in developing.

0940048 Butt描述：该奖项是为了支持弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学计算机科学系的Ali Butt博士的计划访问。 国外合作者是巴基斯坦拉合尔的拉合尔管理科学大学的Umar Saif博士。 PI将与外国合作者进行面对面的互动，以评估可用的资源，设施，并采访未来的研究生，并评估进行拟议研究的可行性。其目的是最后确定将于2009年晚些时候提交的响应NSF/CNS的合作提案的计划。 外国科学家Umar Saif博士是一位非常有成就的年轻科学家，他在美国一所著名大学有研究经验。 赛义夫他的研究领域是无处不在的计算、操作和分布式系统、移动的系统、高速路由架构以及IT对发展中国家的影响。这些技能是对PI的补充吗？在为数据密集型计算开发健壮、经济的资源共享系统、网格计算和系统级优化方面，智力优势在我们的日常生活中，对计算机的依赖越来越大，这推动了对易于访问的计算资源的需求。提供计算、存储和网络资源以维持现代应用是一项挑战，特别是在经济约束甚至限制基本计算机服务的贫困地区。预计的研究旨在设计一个经济的计算基板，透明地收获未使用的资源，从配置良好的设置，以支持弱势用户的应用程序。当专用资源的获取不合理时，也可以使用这种基板，例如，学术实验拟议项目的研究结果将对广泛的计算机使用产生广泛的影响，包括贫困地区的基本计算、学术实验和减轻企业计算中的资源浪费。这项合作将为合作研究开辟新的视野，并将使用户在开发过程中所面临的具体研究问题得以确定。