Effective Distributed Computing: A Reliable Objective-Base Environment for Computer Science Research

佐治亚理工学院的云项目是一项旨在开发基于分布式对象的计算机系统的研究成果。这项奖励将帮助建立一个实验性的计算机研究设施，以支持将云系统从目前的研究工具发展为一个更强大的系统的工作，该系统将支持各种计算研究。这将涉及进一步发展Clouds和Unix之间的连接，以便在熟悉的环境中提供Clouds的特征；开发分布式对象归档系统以支持命名的永久对象；将Clouds内核移植到更现代的机器上；最终，在内核之上提供分布式操作系统，支持用于负载平衡的对象迁移、容错作业调度器、全局系统监控系统、支持多集群结构、对象的透明复制等特征。云系统还将作为环境、软件工程和容错等领域正在进行的研究的试验台。该项目将利用一个新的共享内存多处理器系统和若干将根据赠款购置的新工作站，以及佐治亚理工学院以前提供的设备。根据这项奖励，云项目将得到大幅扩展，其他研究领域也将得到加强。预计研究生课程将继续扩大，从而提供更多所需的博士水平的计算机科学毕业生。

The Clouds Project at Georgia Tech is a research effort directed toward the development of a distributed object-based computer system. This award will aid in the establishment of an experimental computer research facility to support work to evolve the Clouds system from its current status as a research tool to a more robust system that will support a wide variety of computing research. This will involve further development of the connection between Clouds and Unix so as to provide the features of Clouds within a familiar environment; develop- ment of a distributed object filing system to support named, permanent objects; porting the Clouds kernel to more modern machines; and, eventually, providing a distributed operating system on top of the kernel, supporting such features as object migration for load balancing, a fault-tolerant job scheduler, global system monitoring systems, support for multi-cluster structuring, transparent replication of objects, and others. The Clouds system will also serve as a testbed for ongoing research in several areas including environments, software engineering and fault tolerance. The project will utilize a new shared-memory multiprocessor system and a number of new workstations to be acquired under the grant as well as equipment previously available at Georgia Tech. Under this award, the Clouds project will be substantially expanded and other research areas strengthened as well. It is also expected that the graduate program will continue to expand thereby providing additional needed doctoral level computer science graduates.