CISE Research Instrumentation: A Network of Workstations for High Performance Computing

9617315 Das, Chita， R. Sivasubramaniam， Anand宾夕法尼亚州立大学CISE研究仪器：用于高性能计算的工作站网络该仪器拨款用于购买8台UltraSPARC工作站和一台8端口Myrinet交换机，以在宾夕法尼亚州立大学计算机科学与工程系建立一个工作站网络（NOW）实验室。现在的实验室将被用作几个研究项目的实验平台，其中包括以下四个：-工作站网络的高效通信支持-高性能地理信息系统-站点网络上的索引缓存-并行应用程序的通信特性第一个项目侧重于为并行应用程序提供低延迟和高带宽通信的高效软件机制。第二个跨学科研究项目计划在NOW平台上开发高性能时间地理信息系统（GIS）。第三个项目建议使用客户机-服务器体系结构检查数据库性能问题。最后一个项目旨在通过直接执行不同的应用程序来描述并行算法的通信行为，模拟几种网络架构，并在NOW平台上开发一个更快的执行驱动的仿真环境。

9617315 Das, Chita, R. Sivasubramaniam, Anand Pennsylvania State University CISE Research Instrumentation: A Network of Workstations for High Performance Computing This instrumentation grant funds the purchase of 8 UltraSPARC workstations and an 8-port Myrinet switch to set up a Network of Workstations (NOW) laboratory at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. The NOW laboratory is to be used as the experimental platform for several research projects, including in particular the following four: -Efficient Communication Support for a Network of Workstations -High Performance Geographical Information Systems -Index Caching on a Network of Stations -Communication Characterization of Parallel Applications The first project focuses on deriving efficient software mechanisms for providing low latency and high bandwidth communication for parallel applications. The second interdisciplinary research project plans to develop a High Performance Temporal Geographical information System (GIS) on the NOW platform. The third project proposes to examine database performance issues using a client-server architecture. The last project aims at characterizing the communication behavior of parallel algorithms by direct execution of different applications, simulating several network architectures, and developing a faster execution-driven simulation environment on the NOW platform.