I/UCRC Fundamental Research Supplement: Collaborative Research: An Interactive Situational Awareness Simulation - A View from the Clouds

混合多核生产力研究中心（#1031999，#1032040和#1032077）本提案为位于马里兰大学巴尔的摩县（UMBC作为领导机构）的混合多核生产力研究中心与加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）和佐治亚理工学院（GT）的研究伙伴寻求资金。基础研究的资金申请由NSF批准的征求授权，NSF 10-507。本次招标邀请I/ ucrc提交支持行业定义基础研究的提案。该方案原型化了一个新的虚拟环境，在该虚拟环境中，基于新方法将异构计算资源集成到虚拟世界中以模拟动态情况。基于来自各种来源的信息的可用性，新的数据和动态情况不断发展，从而更新虚拟世界的表示，这可能是关于灾难情况或具有社会和环境重要性的大型事件。该提案结合了使用云服务、虚拟世界服务器、计算加速器和客户端系统（从多核台式机到移动电话）的方法来构建虚拟世界测试平台。pi非常有资格进行拟议的研究。拟议的活动有充分的机会获得必要的资源。该项目将综合多核计算、数据同化模型和知识表示等不同领域的当前最佳实践，同时揭示需要新方法的领域，以更好地利用新兴的计算范式来解决紧迫的广泛社会需求。这项工作将很容易适用于发展未来的事件反应情况，包括自然或人为灾害，例如最近的海地地震。这三所大学都有针对女性、国际学生和非裔美国学生的积极项目，以及与当地学校的合作项目，以鼓励和指导来自代表性不足群体的高中生和本科生进入大学和研究生院攻读科学或工程专业，包括计算机科学。结果将通过报告和会议传播。开发的软件将在与谷歌Android相同的公共许可下提供。

Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (#1031999, #1032040, and #1032077) This proposal seeks funding for the Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research located at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC as the lead institution) with research partners at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Georgia Tech (GT). Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 10-507. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. The proposal prototypes a new virtual environment, where based on new methods heterogeneous computing resources are integrated in the virtual world to mimic dynamic situations. The new data and dynamic situations are continuously evolving based on the availability of information from various sources, and thus updating the virtual world representation, which can be about disaster situation or large event of societal and environmental importance. The proposal combines methods to use cloud services, virtual world servers, compute accelerators and client systems ranging from multi-core desktops to mobile phones to build the virtual world test bed. The PIs are very well qualified to conduct the proposed research. The proposed activities have sufficient access to the necessary resources. This project will allow for synthesis of best current practices in divergent areas of multicore computing, data assimilation models and knowledge representation while exposing areas requiring new approaches to better utilize emerging computing paradigms to solve urgent broad social needs. The work will be readily applicable to develop future event response situations, including natural or manmade disasters, e.g. recent Haiti earthquake. All three universities have active programs for female, international and African-American students and cooperative programs with local schools to encourage and mentor high school and undergraduates from underrepresented groups to go on to university and graduate school in science or engineering, including computer science. Results will be disseminated by reports and meetings. The developed software will be made available under the same public license as Google Android.