Acquisition of Equipment for Research Concerning High Band Width Distribution Computing

9413854阿加瓦尔获得的设备将作为一个试验台，用于研究使用高带宽互连的分布式计算的各个方面。拟议的研究包括三个部分：使用定制接口将工作站连接到高带宽网络；开发利用高速链路的系统软件；探索利用高带宽网络能力的应用程序。将收购的设备包括高端工作站、用于基于光纤的高速链路的定制接口组件，以及用于多媒体应用的视频/音频外围设备。涉及研究试验台的具体项目是：(1)高速链路的物理接口设计，内核级通信原语的低层协议设计，以及为可靠的分布式计算开发必要的操作系统服务；(2)为并行计算实现分布式共享存储环境的软件设计；(3)使用一组紧密耦合的协调进程来研究客户/服务器计算的新范例；(4)分布式数据库中信息检索和浏览的各个方面的研究；以及(5)探索在满足诸如多媒体会议和使用分布式光线跟踪的场景渲染等分布式应用的实时约束方面的问题。***

9413854 Aggarwal The acquired equipment will serve as a testbed for research on various aspects of distributed computing using high bandwidth interconnections. There are three components to the proposed research: interfacing workstations to high bandwidth networks using custom interfaces; development of systems software to capitalize on the high-speed links; and exploration of applications that exploit the capabilities of the high bandwidth network. The equipment to be acquired includes high-end workstations, custom interface components for fiber-optic based high-speed links, and video/audio peripherals for multi-media applications. Specific projects involving the research testbed are: (1) physical interface design to the high-speed links, design of low-level protocols for kernel level communication primitives and the development of the necessary operating systems services for reliable distributed computing; (2) design of software to implement a distributed shared memory environment for parallel computing; (3) investigation of a new paradigm for client/server computing using a set of tightly coupled coordinating processes; (4) investigation of various aspects of information retrieval and browsing in distributed databases; and (5) exploration of issues in meeting real-time constraints for distributed applications such as multi-media conferencing and rendering of scenes using distributed ray tracing. ***