The National Scalable Cluster Project: Development of a Wide Scalable Computing Inrastructure

9413948 Hollebeek该奖项授予来自宾夕法尼亚大学、马里兰大学和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的财团。该联盟提议开发一种可扩展的广域高性能元计算机，以解决需要对大量地理分布的数据进行密集的数值分析的问题。实验设施将包括一个连接现有并行计算机和三个机构的高性能工作站集群的高速网络。此外，联合体中的每个机构都将购买或升级一台并行机器。将开发软件来实施元计算机概念，根据这一概念，在任何地点使用节点的个人都可以访问所有其他节点并根据需要分发数据，而不管这些实体位于何处。元计算机设计将是可扩展的，因为可以随时添加额外的分布式节点。高速接入互联网将连接地理上相距遥远的组件，而ATM等技术将提供本地连接。使用这些设施的研究和应用领域包括粒子物理和凝聚态物理、成像和虚拟现实以及数字图书馆。***

9413948 Hollebeek This award is to a consortium group from The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The consortium is proposing to develop a scalable, wide area high performance meta-computer for problems which require numerically intensive analysis of large amounts of geographically distributed data. The experimental facilities will include a high-speed network linking existing parallel computers and high-performance clusters of workstations at the three institutions. In addition each institution in the consortium will acquire or upgrade a parallel machine. Software will be developed to implement the meta-computer concept whereby an individual using a node at any site will have access to all other nodes and distributed data as needed, regardless of the location of these entities. The meta-computer design will be scalable in that additional distributed nodes can be added at any time. High speed access to the Internet will link the geographically-distant components, and technologies such as ATM will provide the local connections. Research and application areas to be addressed using these facilities include particle physics and condensed matter physics, imaging and virtual reality, and digital libraries. ***