Parallel Client/Server System for Programming Language Research

用于编程语言研究的并行客户端/服务器系统

• 批准号: RTI-2022-00004
• 负责人: Buhr, Peter
• 金额: $ 8.3万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=743010
• 关键词: Parallel; Client; Server; System; Programming

Computer programming languages and runtime systems are the foundational mechanism for writing sequential and concurrent programs, transforming human ideas into a practical, functioning form executable by a computer. All research and industrial software are built from programming languages, and programming is trending towards multiple processors (cores) organized as shared memory or distributed across multiple computers. Making programming languages and runtime systems more expressive, easier to use, safer, and performant cuts across all computing disciplines. The applicants (Buhr, Dietl, Karsten, Lam, Lhotak, Richards, and Zhang) build or adapt these foundational tools, enhancing the infrastructure for all of computer science, from teaching programming to developing advanced software projects. The acquisition of new experimental multi-core computers (servers) and testing hardware (switch and clients) is critical for supporting programming-language faculty and graduate students at the University of Waterloo. The equipment is essential to provide a reliable programming and experimental environment to move the applicants' research to the next level with respect to sequential and parallel computation, performance testing, and data analysis. Without access to the next generation of parallel processors, the applicants are unable to produce research results that matter in practice or are considered relevant in academia. The equipment will be used in multiple programming-language projects developing and evaluating advanced algorithms, software techniques, and testing procedures (language design, type systems, concurrency) and runtime systems (user-level threading, locking, scheduling). The research plan takes a holistic approach, performing research vertically across the entire language-development environment, i.e., design, compilation, tools, and high-performance execution especially on parallel computers. The research results are directly applicable to existing and new programming languages, and associated high performance runtime-systems. Graduates from our group are proficient at developing and working on sophisticated and complex system-level software, and are highly sought after at advanced levels in the IT industry. The potential users of this research work and its associated software are multiple sectors of the Canadian IT industry, ranging from small-scale and entrepreneurial software companies to equipment vendors and telecommunication providers. These software companies will be able to rapidly produce complex, concurrent applications, which effectively exploit multiprocessor technology available today and tomorrow. In turn, this creates an economic advantage for these companies by lowering development costs and time to market. As well, the research software is open-source so Canadian companies and consumers are not tied to proprietary and expensive systems and applications, which results in cost savings for businesses and consumers.

计算机编程语言和运行时系统是编写顺序和并发程序的基本机制，将人类的想法转换为计算机可执行的实用功能形式。所有的研究和工业软件都是由编程语言构建的，编程正朝着多个处理器（内核）的方向发展，这些处理器被组织为共享内存或分布在多台计算机上。使编程语言和运行时系统更具表现力，更易于使用，更安全，更高性能跨越所有计算学科。申请人（Buhr，Dietl，Karsten，Lam，Lhotak，理查兹和Zhang）构建或修改了这些基础工具，增强了所有计算机科学的基础设施，从教学编程到开发高级软件项目。购置新的实验性多核计算机（服务器）和测试硬件（交换机和客户端）对于支持滑铁卢大学的编程语言教师和研究生至关重要。该设备是必不可少的，以提供一个可靠的编程和实验环境，移动申请人的研究到一个新的水平方面的顺序和并行计算，性能测试和数据分析。如果不能使用下一代并行处理器，申请人就无法产生在实践中重要或在学术界被认为相关的研究结果。这些设备将用于开发和评估高级算法、软件技术和测试程序（语言设计、类型系统、并发性）以及运行时系统（用户级线程、锁定、调度）的多个编程语言项目。研究计划采取整体方法，在整个语言开发环境中垂直进行研究，即，设计、编译、工具和高性能执行，特别是在并行计算机上。研究结果直接适用于现有的和新的编程语言，以及相关的高性能运行时系统。我们集团的毕业生精通开发和处理复杂的系统级软件，并在IT行业的高级水平上受到高度追捧。这项研究工作及其相关软件的潜在用户是加拿大IT行业的多个部门，从小型和创业软件公司到设备供应商和电信供应商。这些软件公司将能够快速地生产复杂的、并发的应用程序，这些应用程序有效地利用了现在和将来可用的多处理器技术。反过来，这通过降低开发成本和上市时间为这些公司创造了经济优势。此外，研究软件是开源的，因此加拿大公司和消费者不受专有和昂贵的系统和应用程序的束缚，这为企业和消费者节省了成本。