CISE Research Instrumentation: A Low-Cost, High Performance Computing Platform

9818327Das, Chita R.Sivasubramanian， AnandPennsylvania State university低成本，高性能计算平台该研究仪器支持以下研究项目：-工作站网络的高效通信和调度支持，-高性能地理信息系统，-基于非结构化网格离散化的高性能科学计算，以及-应用通信特性。为了支持上述项目，该奖项将用于购买奔腾机器和Myrinet硬件，以建立一个具有成本效益的工作站网络（NOW）平台，该平台将致力于支持宾夕法尼亚州立大学计算机科学与工程系在计算机和信息科学与工程方面的研究。该实验平台将用于几个研究项目，特别是上面提到的四个项目。第一个项目侧重于为并行应用程序提供有效的通信和调度软件机制。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该平台开发非结构化网格计算的高效算法。最后一个项目旨在描述许多应用程序的通信行为。

9818327Das, Chita R.Sivasubramanian, AnandPennsylvania State UniversityA Low-Cost, High Performance Computing PlatformThis research instrumentation enables research projects in:- Efficient Communication and Scheduling Support for a Network of Workstations,- High Performance Geographical Information Systems,- High Performance Scientific Calculations Based on Unstructured Mesh Discretizations, and- Application Communication Characterization.To support the aforementioned projects, this award contributes to the purchase of Pentium machines and Myrinet hardware to set up a cost-effective Network of Workstations (NOW) platform which will bededicated to support research in computer and information science and engineering by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. The experimental platform will be used for several research projects, including in particular, the four cited above. The first project focuses on deriving efficient software mechanisms for communication and scheduling 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 use this platform for developing efficient algorithms for unstructured mesh computations. The last project aims at characterizing the communication behavior of many applications.