Funding Sources Following are some of the contracts which support the Parallel Computing Laboratory Research: iMASH This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award 022374-010A02, "iMASH: Interactive Mobile Application Support for Heterogenous Clients," 10/01/99 - 09/30/00. PI: R. Bagrodia; Co-PIs: M. Gerla, M. McCoy, D. Valentino, L. Zhang. DOMAINS This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense/ARPA under Contract DAAB07-97-C-D321, "Design of Mobile Adaptive Networks Using Simulation and Agent Technology," 08/18/97 - 09/30/00. PI: R. Bagrodia; Co-PIs: G Popek, L. Kleinrock. AASERT This work was supported by the U.S. Department of the Army/Army Research Office, under Contract DAAG55-98-1-0156, "Augmentation Awards for Science and Engineering Research Training," 04/23/98 - 04/22/01. PI: R. Bagrodia. POEMS This work was supported by DARPA/ITO under Contract N66001-97-C-8533, "End-to-End Performance Modeling of Large Heterogenous Adaptive Parallel/Distributed Computer/Communication Systems," 10/01/97 - 09/30/00. PIs: J. Browne (U. Texas at Austin), R. Bagrodia. EPRI This work was supported by the U.S. Department of the Army/Army Research Office under Contract DAAG55-98-R-RA08, "Power Laws and the Power Grid: A Methematical & Computational Foundation for Complex Interactive Networks," 01/01/99 - 12/31/03. PIs: F. Paganini (CalTech), R. Bagrodia; Co-PI: M. Gerla. HP EQUIPMENT GRANT Hewlett-Packard/UCLA SEAS Instructional Technology Funding Awards "Wireless and Mobile Computing," 11/24/98 - 06/30/99. PIs: M. Gerla, L. Zhang, L. Kleinrock, R. Bagrodia, P. Reiher. About the Parallel Computing Laboratory Professor Rajive Bagrodia, Director Reserach Topics Current research topics in the parallel Computing Laboratory include: Performance evaluation of high performance computing systems. Modeling and simulation of mobile computing environments. Protocol development and deployment for large-scale heterogeneous networks. Design of hybrid networking environments composed of operational systems and real time simulation models. Laboratory Facilities The UCLA Parallel Computing Laboratory is comprised of a heterogeneous computing environment which includes seven workstations, six PCs, four laptop computers, as well as three multiprocessor machines dedicated to parallel computing research. The heart of the parallel computing environment consists of the three multiprocessor machines, administered by the Parallel Computing Lab ‹- an SGI Origin 2000, a Dell PowerEdge 6100, and a SPARCserver 1000. The Origin 2000, the latest model of supercomputer marketed by SGI, is a ten CPU multiprocessor with a hierarchical memory scheme, and runs Irix, SGI's version of Unix. The SPARCserver 1000, running the Solaris OS, is an older symmetric multi-processor model from Sun Microsystems with eight CPUs and good parallel programming characteristics. The Dell PowerEdge is an inexpensive multi-processor based on the Intel architecture. It has four Pentium Pro CPUs and is running Windows NT. Department Resources The Computer Science Department provides a number of shared computing resources for research and instructional activities, including networking, disk storage and backup, access to multi-user systems, email, printing, and workstation support. The total computing resources of the Department are much greater than this central core as many research groups have machines not listed here but connected to the departmental LAN. The facility is based upon multiple Sun servers running Solaris; currently this server cluster includes several Sun Ultra 1 and 2, with sharing of file systems provided via NFS. The departmental LAN is based on Ethernet and TCP/IP. Aside from the central servers, hosts on the LAN include more than 300 workstations and personal computers, terminal servers and modem servers. Campus Resources The UCLA Office of Academic Computing currently operates and maintains a computing environment referred to as the IBM SP/Cluster complex. SP refers to IBM's 9076 Scalable POWERParallel System. This environment is available to UCLA research laboratories and is a major resource for academic and research computing work. Components of the SP/Cluster complex were granted to UCLA under the IBM-sponsored Shared University Research Program. The IBM SP/Cluster complex consists of a number of computers, servers, storage devices, networks and printers. Generally all Unix application software can be run on the SP/Cluster complex. OAC runs a parallel application development environment on the SP complex which includes a parallel communication library, MPI, optimized for the high performance switch, a parallel debugger, parallel monitoring tools, and a parallel operating environment. They are also running several versions of the PVM parallel communication library. Outside Resources Some of our work was performed on an IBM SP system at Argonne National Laboratory. Updated: Jun. 10, 2000