CISE Research Infrastructure: Research Infrastructure for Parallel and Distributed Systems: Real-Time, Multimedia, and High-Performance

9623865陈，Marina Crovella，Mark Boston University CISE研究基础设施：并行和分布式系统的研究基础设施：实时、多媒体和高性能这个奖项是为了奖励获得计算和通信资源，以支持计算机科学系实验科学家的两项主要研究。高性能计算和数字多媒体的学科特点都是它们需要通过高带宽互连来连接分布式计算节点。对于高性能计算，在构建支持十亿次浮点运算的机器时，为了获得足够的性价比，分布式体系结构是必需的。此外，高带宽互连提供必要的数据分发路径，为每个处理器提供工作。对于数字多媒体，分布式系统允许多个用户同时使用，并且需要高带宽互连来满足每个用户多个视频流和音频流的需求。这些设备还将使波士顿的研究人员能够将高性能计算方面的进步应用于多媒体、医学成像研究和他们的三个与WWW相关的项目，充分利用该部门独特的集体力量。

9623865 Chen, Marina Crovella, Mark Boston University CISE Research Infrastructure: Research Infrastructure for Parallel and Distributed Systems: Real-Time, Multimedia and High-Performance This award is for the acquisition of computing and communications resources to support the two primary research thrust of the Computer Science Department's experimental scientists. The disciplines of both high performance computing and digital multimedia are characterized by their need for distributed computing nodes connected by high-bandwidth interconnections. For high performance computing, distributed architectures are necessary to achieve sufficient price/performance when constructing gigaflops-capable machines. In addition, high-bandwidth interconnects provide the necessary data distribution paths to supply each processor with work. For digital multimedia, distributed systems allow multiple simultaneous users, and high-bandwidth interconnects are needed to supply the demands of multiple video and audio streams per user. The equipment will also enable Boston researchers to apply advances in high performance computing to multimedia, medical imaging research and their three WWW related projects, capitalizing on the unique collective strength of the department.