CISE Research Resources: Acquisition of a Computing Cluster and Access Grid Node for Information Technology Research

伊利诺伊理工学院计算机科学系将购买一个82节点的LINUX集群、一个访问网格节点和几个工作站，所有这些都将通过高速网络连接起来。这些计算资源将专门用于支助信息技术领域正在进行的几个研究项目。这些项目包括为异质分布式计算开发进程迁移环境，设计和实施可扩展的信息系统，支持复杂系统管理的可扩展的分布式模拟，以及可扩展的并行数值算法和模拟。这些项目需要强大的计算能力和高性能的网络。这样的资源目前在大学内部是不可用的。通过NSF CEISE仪器计划获得这些资源，对于这些研究项目的成功和IIT强大的计算机科学计划的发展至关重要。此外，所要求的设备将提供一个极好的平台，学生可以在这个平台上通过课程作业和学期项目来了解和体验最先进的研究。

EIA-0130673 Xian-He SunIllinois Institute of TechnologyCISE Research Resources: Acquisition of a Computing Cluster and Access Grid Node for Information Technology ResearchThe Department of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will purchase an 82 node Linux cluster, an Access Grid node, and several workstations, all of which will be connected via a high-speed network. These computational resources will be dedicated to the support of several on-going research projects in the area of information technology. Such projects include the development of a process migration environment for heterogeneous distributed computing, design and implementation of scalable information systems, scalable distributed simulation in support of complex systems management, and scalable parallel numerical algorithms and simulations. These projects require significant computing power and high-performance networks. Such resources are not currently available within the university. The acquisition of these resources through the NSF CISE Instrumentation program is critical to the success of these research projects, and to the development of a strong computer science program at IIT. Additionally, the requested equipment will offer an excellent platform upon which students can learn about and experience state-of-the-art research via course work and term projects.