Hackstadt's Oral Comprehensive Exam Position Paper: Title and Table of Contents

Domain-Specific
Metacomputing for
Computational Science:

Achieving Specificity Through Abstraction

Oral Comprehensive Exam Position Paper
September 1997

By Steven T. Hackstadt

Department of Computer & Information Science
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~hacks/
hacks@cs.uoregon.edu

CHAPTER 1: The "Big" Deal with Computational Science
- Computational Science Research: An Evolution of Computer Science
- Solving "Big" Problems
- Delivering "Big" Performance
- Building "Big" Software
- The "Big" Picture: A Research Challenge
CHAPTER 2: Characterizing Domain-Specific Metacomputing for Computational Science
- Requirements
  - High Performance Heterogeneous Computing
  - Software Design and Development
  - Domain-Specificity
- Technologies
  - Metacomputing
  - Software Architecture
  - Domain-Specific Environments
- Conclusion
CHAPTER 3: Foundations in Parallel and Distributed Computing
- The Convergence of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  - Heterogeneous Computing
  - Metacomputing Challenges
- Metacomputing Research
  - The First Metacomputer: The NCSA Metacomputer
  - Metacomputing From Existing Technology: PVM and HeNCE
  - A Metacomputing Toolkit: The Globus Project
  - Distributed Object Metacomputing: The Legion Project
- Issues and Challenges
  - A Metacomputing Testbed
  - Real-Time System Information
  - Application Scheduling
  - Global Name Space
- Conclusion
CHAPTER 4: Supportive Research In Software Engineering
- The Software Crisis in Parallel Computing
- Primitive Forms of Software Engineering
- Object Orientation
  - Object-Oriented Languages And Message Passing Libraries
  - Parallel Object-Oriented Class Hierarchies
  - Object-Oriented Systems For Parallel Computation
- Software Architecture
  - Domain-Specific Software Architectures
  - Domain Modeling
  - Domain-Specific Software Architectures for Computational Science Problems
- Conclusion
CHAPTER 5: Supportive Research In Computational Science
- Problem-Solving Environments
- Multi-Component Modeling
- Multidisciplinary Problem-Solving Environments
- Domain-Specific Environments
  - A Domain-Specific Environment for Environmental Modeling
  - A Domain-Specific Environment For Seismic Tomography
- Conclusion
CHAPTER 6: Synthesis
- Overview
- The Role of Nonfunctional Requirements in Software Design
- The Role of Frameworks in Software Implementation
- The Role of Abstraction in Software Use
- Specificity Through Abstraction
  - Design: Identifying the Domain and Nonfunctional Requirements
  - Implementation: Using Frameworks or Software Architectures
  - Use: Creating Appropriate Abstractions
- Evaluation
- Open Problems
  - Design
  - Implementation
  - Use
- Conclusion
References
Footnotes

Last modified: Wed Nov 5 08:12:29 1997

Steven Hackstadt / hacks@cs.uoregon.edu
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~hacks/