CISE Research Instrumentation: Scalable Storage Servers for Advanced Information Systems

9818320Agrawal, DivyakantAcharya， anurag加州大学圣巴巴拉分校高级信息系统的可扩展存储服务器该研究仪器支持以下研究项目：-快速增长数据集的架构，-定位异构信息源的可扩展分布式架构，-数据放置和信息访问，以及-并行数字图书馆/Web服务器的集群支持。为了支持上述项目，该奖项有助于在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校计算机科学系构建用于在可伸缩存储服务器上进行实验研究的仪器基础设施。这笔资金将用于购买一组四处理器工作站、几台单处理器个人电脑、一台快速以太网交换机和一个带有大量FiberChannel磁盘的Fibervault。该设备将专门用于支持数据库、操作系统和并行计算方面的研究。该设备将用于几个相互关联的研究项目，特别是：快速增长数据集的体系结构评估，用于定位信息的可扩展分布式体系结构的设计和实现，用于高效内容检索的数据放置，以及用于数字图书馆的基于集群的服务器的设计和实现。将研究将重要的处理能力和内存集成到磁盘驱动器中的活动磁盘体系结构。将探讨在活动磁盘上的数据放置和信息访问技术。将在提议的仪器基础设施上开发用于定位异构信息源的可伸缩分布式体系结构。最后，对并行数字图书馆和并行web服务器的集群支持进行了研究。拟议研究项目的一个共同主题是为先进的信息系统提供有效和可扩展的支持。

9818320Agrawal, DivyakantAcharya, AnuragUniversity of California at Santa BarbaraScalable Storage Servers for Advanced Information SystemsThis research instrumentation enables research projects in:- Architecture for Rapidly Growing Datasets,- A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Locating Heterogeneous Information Sources,- Data Placement and Information Access, and - Clustering Support for Parallel Digital Library/Web Servers.To support the aforementioned projects, this award contributes in building an instrumentation infrastructure for conducting experimental research on scalable storage servers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Computer Science Department. The funds will contribute to the purchase of a cluster of quad-processor Workstations, several single processor PCs, a Fast Ethernet switch and a Fibervault with a large number of FiberChannel disks. This equipment will be dedicated to support research in databases, operating systems, and parallel computing. The equipment will be used for several interrelated research projects, including in particular: evaluation of architectures for rapidly growing datasets, design and implementation of a scalable distributed architecture for locating information, data placement for efficient content-based retrieval and design and implementation of cluster-based servers for digital libraries. Active Disk architectures which integrate significant processing power and memory into a disk drive will be investigated. Data placement and information access techniques on active disks will be explored. A scalable distributed architecture for locating heterogeneous information sources will be developed on the proposed instrumentation infrastructure. Finally, clustering support for parrallel digital library and parallel web servers will be developed. A common theme among the proposed research projects is to provide efficient and scalable support for advanced information systems.