CISE Research Instrumentation: Research Infrastructure for Distributed and Data-Intensive Computing

cise研究仪器：分布式和数据密集型计算的研究基础设施宾厄姆顿大学计算机科学系将为32节点双奔腾集群和一套紧密耦合的高端工作站和服务器购买组件，这将致力于支持计算机和信息科学与工程的研究。这些设备将用于若干研究项目，其中特别包括：(i)大规模数据可视化；（ii）分布式数字图书馆；（iii）并行离散事件模拟和（iv）基于对象的分布式计算基础设施。这四个项目都需要一个分布式高性能平台（由集群提供）。此外，可视化和元搜索引擎项目需要大量的磁盘空间和内存来处理这些应用程序所需的海量数据集（由高端工作站和集群节点4提供）。仿真和可视化项目需要Myrinet SAN网络提供的高带宽低延迟通信。分布式平台的集群选择是明确的；通过进入商品组件市场提供的成本效益使它们比定制并行机器（共享内存，numa或mpp）具有更高的价值。部门内没有同等（或可比较）的基础设施；这些设备对所有四个项目的成功至关重要。

EIA-9911099Kanad GhoseSUNY @ BinghamtonCISE Research Instrumentation: Research Infrastructure for Distributed and Data-Intensive ComputingThe Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University will purchase components for a 32-node-dual-Pentium cluster and a closely coupled set of high-end workstations and servers, which will be dedicated to support research in computer and information science and engineering. The equipment will be used for several research projects, including in particular: (i) large-scale data visualization; (ii) distributed digital library; (iii) parallel discrete event simulation and (iv) object-based distributed computing infrastructure. All four projects require a distributed high-performance platform (as provided by the cluster). Moreover, the visualization and metasearch engine projects require large disk space and memory sizes to handle the immense data sets required by these applications (as provided by the high-end workstations and cluster node4s). The simulation and visualization projects need the high-bandwidth low-latency communication provided by the Myrinet SAN network. The choice of the cluster for the distributed platform is clear; the cost-effectiveness provided by tapping into the commodity component market makes them a superior value to custom parallel machines (shared Memory, NUMAs or MPPs). There is no equivalent (or comparable) infrastructure available in the department; this equipment will be critical to the success of all four projects.