Acquisition of a Mid-Range Scalable Parallel Computer

9413962 Sadayappan该奖项是对购买一台中端可伸缩并行计算机的奖励，以支持一些正在进行的研究项目。这些项目中有些侧重于体系结构问题，有些侧重于系统软件问题，还有一些侧重于并行算法和应用程序的开发和评估。除了促进系内的几个研究项目外，该机器还将帮助培训与计算科学和工程有关的不同学科的研究生。将从获得并行计算机中受益的具体项目是：(1)用于块递归数值算法的可移植并行编程环境，(2)用于虫洞路由系统的通信/同步机制，(3)用于在分布式存储机器上有效执行数组语句的编译技术，(4)非线性动态系统的智能模拟，(5)用于模式分割的振荡器网络的大规模模拟，(6)用于体绘制的并行算法，(7)用于分布式存储多处理器的并行直接稀疏矩阵算法，(8)在分布式存储多处理器上的路由和(9)映射。***

9413962 Sadayappan This award is for the acquisition of a mid-range scalable parallel computer to support a number of active research projects. Some of these projects focus on architectural issues, some on systems software issues, and others on the development and evaluation of parallel algorithms and applications. Besides facilitating several research projects within the department, the machine will also aid in training graduate students in various disciplines pertaining to Computational Science and Engineering. The following specific projects that will benefit from acquisition of the parallel computer are: (1) A Portable Parallel Programming Environment for Block-Recursive Numerical Algorithms, (2)Communication / Synchronization Mechanisms for Wormhole-Routed Systems, (3) Compiler Techniques for Efficient Execution of Array Statements on Distributed Memory Machines, (4) Intelligent Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, (5) Large Scale Simulation of Oscillator Networks for Pattern Segmentation, (6) Parallel Algorithms for Volume Rendering, (7) Parallel Direct Sparse Matrix Algorithms for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, (8) Routing and (9) Mapping on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors. ***