A Next-Generation Infrastructure for Integrating Computing and Communications

9401156法拉利该奖项为TITAN的开发提供支持，TITAN是一种由计算和通信元素集成组成的计算系统，旨在为用户提供多种服务。这些服务将包括运输工具的多媒体能力；存储和通信；大计算能力；大存储空间；创新的并行语言、调试器和库；以及从移动和固定位置的高度可访问性。所要求的实验设施包括构成向用户提供周期的分布式系统的主干的工作站和服务器、用于连接工作站和服务器的ATM交换机、视频编辑系统、大容量存储单元以及用于将网络连接到当前可用的CM-5并行计算机的设备。拟议的研究项目分为三个领域：网络和通信；分布式超级计算机项目，主要涉及通过组合体系结构、操作系统和编程语言工作为每个用户提供并行计算；以及多媒体服务，它需要集成系统支持、软件支持和人工智能工具来创建、存储、播放、编辑、搜索、输入和输出多媒体对象。Titan Form的网络、多媒体和计算方面将形成许多计算密集型应用程序的基础设施。

9401156 Ferrari This award provides support for the development of Titan, a computing system consisting of an integrated ensemble of computing and communication elements, organized to provide the user with a number of services. These services will include multimedia capabilities in delivery vehicles; storage and communication; large computing power; large storage space; innovative parallel languages, debuggers, and libraries; and high accessibility from both mobile and fixed locations. The experimental facilities requested include workstations and servers constituting the backbone of the distributed system providing cycles to the user, ATM switches for linking workstations and servers, a video editing system, a massive storage unit, and equipment for linking the network to the currently available CM-5 parallel computer. The proposed research projects fall into three areas: network and communications; distributed supercomputer projects which are mainly concerned with providing parallel computing to every user through a combined architecture, operating systems, and programming language effort; and multimedia services which requires integrating systems support, software support, and artificial intelligence tools to create, store, play, edit, search, input, and output multimedia objects. The networking, multimedia, and computing aspects of Titan form will form the infrastructure for a number of computationally intensive applications.