ILI: Distributed Systems Laboratory

ILI：分布式系统实验室

• 批准号: 9851485
• 负责人: Hongchi Shi
• 金额: $ 4.2万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ILI; Distributed; Systems; Laboratory

As the computational environment in the "real world" becomes increasingly distributed with the advent of the National Information Infrastructure, this area has to become a part of the undergraduate computer science curriculum. There is a need to have laboratory facilities to support teaching in this area. This project will establish a dedicated laboratory for distributed computing instruction, consisting of one server and twelve workstations connected via a high-speed ATM switch. The proposed system mimics the environment that the students are likely to encounter in their workplaces in a few years. In addition to the existing three undergraduate courses in this area (Networking I, Operating Systems I, and Science and Engineering of the Web), a new course (Introduction to Distributed Systems) will be introduced in the regular curriculum. The courses in this area cover most aspects of distributed systems, from low-level network protocol and programming (often at the packet level) to system programming at the operating system level to the application level for web-based distributed computing. The facility will enable a laboratory-oriented approach to teaching the theory and practice of distributed computing and algorithm development. Unlike the existing general-use computing facilities provided by Campus Computing and Engineering Computing Network, our proposed facility will provide students system-level access to the equipment. This will enable them to do experiments that are not possible with general-purpose computing facilities, and allow instructors to create model syllabi that will be made available to other institutions.

随着国家信息基础设施的出现，“现实世界”中的计算环境变得越来越分散，该领域必须成为本科计算机科学课程的一部分。需要有实验室设施来支持该领域的教学。该项目将建立一个分布式计算指令专用实验室，由一台服务器和十二个通过高速ATM交换机连接的工作站组成。拟议的系统模仿了学生几年后可能在工作场所遇到的环境。除了该领域现有的三门本科课程（网络I、操作系统I、网络科学与工程）外，常规课程中还将引入一门新课程（分布式系统导论）。该领域的课程涵盖了分布式系统的大部分方面，从低级网络协议和编程（通常在数据包级别）到操作系统级别的系统编程，再到基于网络的分布式计算的应用程序级别。该设施将采用面向实验室的方法来教授分布式计算和算法开发的理论和实践。与校园计算和工程计算网络提供的现有通用计算设施不同，我们提议的设施将为学生提供对设备的系统级访问。这将使他们能够进行通用计算设施无法完成的实验，并允许教师创建可供其他机构使用的模型教学大纲。