Grant: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Concordia University
$49,609.00
Infrastructure for a Multidisciplinary Distributed and Parallel Algorithms Group
EF 2013-14
Résumé
The requested equipment includes a server and a set of 20 workstations with 16GB/core of memory for shared use in the new research group on threaded parallel and distributed algorithms of Drs. Haarslev, Jaumard and Mudur. The server will be used by all the graduate students of the group, in order to develop and perform the development of large scale optimization parallel and distributed algorithms. The requested equipment will replace the various obsolete (6 to 10 years old) servers and desktops in the laboratories of the applicants.The new hardware will be used for the development and validation of the algorithms developed within the research projects led by the three applicants on parallel and distributed algorithms. Each workstation will be connected to the server and will be equipped with one wide screen in order to help the graduate students for the monitoring of their numerical experiments, with GPU computing in order to speed up the lengthy preliminary tests and with 16GB memory to facilitate testing on large data sets.The research program to be supported includes: the networking and transportation projects of Dr. Jaumard, the description logic reasoning projects of Dr. Haarslev, and the 3D computer graphics projects of Dr. Mudur. All projects have in common the design and development of large scale combinatorial or optimization algorithms, on which the researchers will collaborate and bring their specific expertise in order to enhance them throughout threaded parallel or distributed versions. The interest of the three applicants in parallel and distributed algorithms is in order to enhance the scalability from several orders of their current algorithms.
Programme
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Quebec, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
458528-2014
Name nom
Haarslev, Volker
Department département
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Organization id
70
Institution établissement
Concordia University
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2013
Competition year année de concours
2014
Award amount
49609
Program id
EQPEQ
Program name en
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Program name fr
Outils et instruments de recherche - catégorie 1 (<150 000$)
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
1507
Committee name en
Computer Science
Committee name fr
Sciences informatiques
Area of application code
803
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Computer communications
Area of application fr
Téléinformatique
Research subject code
2715
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Optimization
Research subject fr
Optimisation
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Infrastructure for a Multidisciplinary Distributed and Parallel Algorithms Group
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
The requested equipment includes a server and a set of 20 workstations with 16GB/core of memory for shared use in the new research group on threaded parallel and distributed algorithms of Drs. Haarslev, Jaumard and Mudur. The server will be used by all the graduate students of the group, in order to develop and perform the development of large scale optimization parallel and distributed algorithms. The requested equipment will replace the various obsolete (6 to 10 years old) servers and desktops in the laboratories of the applicants.The new hardware will be used for the development and validation of the algorithms developed within the research projects led by the three applicants on parallel and distributed algorithms. Each workstation will be connected to the server and will be equipped with one wide screen in order to help the graduate students for the monitoring of their numerical experiments, with GPU computing in order to speed up the lengthy preliminary tests and with 16GB memory to facilitate testing on large data sets.The research program to be supported includes: the networking and transportation projects of Dr. Jaumard, the description logic reasoning projects of Dr. Haarslev, and the 3D computer graphics projects of Dr. Mudur. All projects have in common the design and development of large scale combinatorial or optimization algorithms, on which the researchers will collaborate and bring their specific expertise in order to enhance them throughout threaded parallel or distributed versions. The interest of the three applicants in parallel and distributed algorithms is in order to enhance the scalability from several orders of their current algorithms.
