CAREER: Realizing Cost-effective Parallel Systems Using an Application-driven Approach

并行计算在科学进步和经济发展中发挥着越来越重要的作用。为了使并行计算取得成功，我们需要构建能够在实际应用中提供高性能的机器。该项目试图测量工作站网络上的应用程序性能，并实现应用程序以容忍这种网络中的高延迟。研究中的最初应用来自计算生物学和地理信息系统。软件、架构和应用主题的整合将在研究和本项目开发的课程中得到强调。

Parallel computing is becoming increasingly important to scientific advancement and economic development. For parallel computation to succeed we need to build machines that deliver high performance on real-world applications. This project attempts to measure application performance on networks of workstations and to implement applications to tolerate the high latencies in such networks. The initial applications under study come from computational biology and from geographic information systems. The integration of software, architectural, and applications topics will be emphasized both in research and in courses developed in this project.