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NSF Funds Distributed Computing Development

Source: Grid Computing Planet

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Louisiana State University professor a grant to develop a new distributed computing system.

NSF gave LSU professor Tevfik Kosar a $400,000 CAREER Award over five years to develop a new system for "data-aware distributed computing for enabling large-scale collaborative science."

Kosar will develop new computing systems "that manage data more effectively with automated processes, which enables scientists to spend more time focusing on their research questions and less time dealing with data," according to a press release.

"This project will not only impact computer science research by changing the way computing is performed, but it will also dramatically change how domain scientists perform their research by facilitating rapid analysis and sharing of raw data and results," Kosar said in a statement.

"It will help the scientists start thinking about totally new scenarios where simulations are closely coupled with large amounts of observational and experimental data, which would revolutionize science, not just in the new scenarios but in the way it will bring the computational, theoretical, and experimental scientists together, which currently live in very different communities and do not interact."

It's not the first award for Kosar, who specializes in data storage and management. In 2006, he received a $1 million grant from the NSF to create advanced data archival, processing and visualization capabilities across the state through the PetaShare project.

In December, Kosar led a team of researchers who unveiled a new software package, Stork Data Scheduler, that makes it easier and more efficient for researchers to access and transfer large data sets.

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