Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Wide Area Scalable Infrastructure for Data Intensive Computing: Consortium Proposal

9601861宾夕法尼亚乔纳森大学学术研究基础设施：为数据密集型计算开发广域可扩展基础设施：财团建议该学术研究基础设施奖支持购买设备以增强国家可扩展集群项目。该设备将安装在3所大学，以促进国家元计算中心的发展。该设备包括大型快速磁盘阵列、高性能计算机集群增强、ATM网络交换机到OC-12的能力、网络连接和相关软件。该设备支持的研究项目包括：1.数据密集型应用计算，包括粒子物理数据的数据挖掘，语言学数据联盟的数字图书馆开发，天体物理数字图书馆的开发，引力透镜数据地图，银河系大结构模拟，以及数字和统计数字图书馆的开发。2.实时计算应用，包括收集简化的天文数据、医学成像和远程呈现。3.并行计算密集型应用，包括液晶成像、相变模拟、晶面计算研究和涡流研究。4.高速网络研究，包括网络分条和在高性能存储层次中加入第三级存储。5.计算机科学研究可伸缩对象存储，研究缓存、转换和复制数据，以及用于集群管理的软件工具。

9601861 Hollebeek, Robert Smith, Jonathon University of Pennsylvania Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Wide Area Scaleable Infrastructure for Data Intensive Computing: Consortium Proposal This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the acquisition of equipment to enhance the National Scaleable Cluster Project. The equipment will be sited at 3 universities to further the development of a national meta computing center. The equipment consists of large fast disk arrays, high performance computer cluster enhancements, ATM network switches to OC-12 capabilities, network connections, and associated software. The research projects supported by the equipment include: 1. Applications computing that is data intensive including data mining of particle physics data, digital library development of the linguistics data consortium, digital library development of astrophysics, gravitational lenses data maps, galactic large structure simulations, and the development of numerical and statistical digital libraries. 2. Real time computing applications including collecting reduced astronomical data, medical imaging, and telepresence. 3. Parallel compute intensive applications including liquid crystal imaging, phase transition simulations, crystal surface computational studies, and vortex flow studies. 4. High speed network research including network striping and the inclusion of tertiary store in high performance memory hierarchies. 5. Computer science research on scaleable object stores, research on caching, transforming, and replicating data, and software tools for cluster management.