Systems and Software Tools for High Performance Computing

该合同为分布式内存并行计算机的采购提供支持，并为科学可视化和大型图像数据库的存储提供支持硬件。提议的系统将是一个实验设施，设计为操作系统和算法开发的测试平台，因此将运行广泛的实验操作系统。研究课题涉及高性能计算的广泛应用研究，分为三类：高性能计算系统的编程工具、科学计算的并行算法和符号编码。该研究计划的一个关键组成部分是开发可扩展的并行数据结构和算法，用于表示和分析由环境科学问题引起的全球数据集。

9401151 Davis This award provides support for the acquisition of a distributed memory parallel computer together with support hardware for scientific visualization and storage of large image databases. The proposed system will be an experimental facility designed as a testbed for operating system and algorithm development, and will consequently run a wide range of experimental operating systems. The research topics to be explored span a broad range of applied research in high performance computing in three general categories: programming tools for HPC systems, parallel algorithms for scientific computing, and symbolic coding. A key component of the research program is the development of scalable parallel data structure and algorithms for the representation and analysis of global data sets arising from environmental science problems.