CAREER: Affinity and Scheduling for the Computational Grid

设计和实现一个全国性的计算系统网格已经成为计算机科学家和计算科学家们共同努力的目标。为了更好地利用这一资源，包括地理上分散的机器，仪器和数据存储，更好的调度和资源管理techniques是必需的。这通常被称为确定应用程序对资源的亲和性。这项研究将正式目前使用的民间传说，以增加网格的可访问性，那些应用科学家有经验比目前的用户少。工作将继续在一个语言规范的发展，以描述这两个应用程序和资源的需要，今天，但与扩展性需要为未来的应用程序以及。这将被用来作为索引结构到一个基于案例的推理expertsystem.This项目也有一个扩展的教育部分it.As的一部分，努力扩大西北大学的计算机科学教育在系统领域和跨学校的倡议，我们计划提供一个实验系统的课程，使用并行分布式调度的思想为基础，更大的视图到实际的系统，实验和团队合作。这门以专题为导向的课程将着重于教授学生当前并行分布式调度的工作和应用。此外，将开始一个新的系列研讨会，以计算机科学领域的女研究人员为特色，以帮助鼓励女学生继续从事计算机科学领域的职业。

The design and implementation of a national computing systems grid has become areachable goal for both computer and computational scientists. In order to better use thissuite of resources, consisting of geographically disperse machines, instruments, and datastorage, better scheduling and resource management techniques are needed.This project concentrates on the issue of matching the requirements of an applicationto the capabilities of a resource or set of resources on the grid. This is often referred to as determining the affinity of an application for a resource. The research will formalizethe folklore currently used in order to increase the accessibility of the grid to thoseapplication scientists that have less experience than current users. Work willcontinue in the development of a language specification to describe both applicationsand resources as needed today, but with the extensibility needed for future applications aswell. This will then be used as an indexing structure into a case-based reasoning expertsystem.This project also has an extended educational portion to it. As a part of the effort toexpand Northwestern's Computer Science education in the systems area and a cross-schoolinitiative, we plan to offer a course in experimental systems using ideas in paralleldistributed scheduling as the basis for a larger view into practical systems,experimentation, and teamwork. This project-oriented class will be focused aroundteaching students about current parallel distributed scheduling efforts and applications.In addition, a new seminar series will be started featuring women researchers incomputer science to help encourage female students to continue with careers in computerscience.