"Parasol: A Laboratory for Parallel Software Technology"

这个项目的中心是创建一个并行软件实验室，名为Parasol。该设施旨在支持各种项目，调查并行计算的基本性质及其在软件工程和科学计算中的重要问题的应用。该合同将通过为紧密耦合的多处理器和若干工作站提供支持，以及为维护费用、支持人员和相关费用提供支持，帮助建立这个软件实验室。这项研究建立在以前的协调实验研究(CER)赠款下进行的工作的基础上，并将延长先前的贡献，并为新方向的扩展做好准备。在(1)并行计算的基本性质和(2)并行计算在科学计算和软件工程中的应用问题等非常重要的领域，预期将取得重大成果。

This project is centered around the creation of a parallel software laboratory, called PARASOL. This facility is intended to support a variety of projects investigating both the fundamental nature of parallel computing and its application to problems of importance in software engineering and in scientific computing. The award will aid in the establishment of this software laboratory through provision of support for a tightly-coupled multiprocessor and a number of workstations along with support for maintenance costs, support staff and related costs. The research builds on work conducted under a previous Coordinated Experimental Research (CER) grant and will extend the earlier contributions, as well as providing for expansion in new directions. Significant results are expected in the very important areas of (1) the fundamental nature of parallel computing and (2) applications of parallel computing to problems in scientific computing and software engineering.