Contact: Jim Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A National Science Foundation grant will help fund a project to engage Mississippi State faculty members and industrial partners in research to accelerate autonomic computing knowledge creation and technology transfer.
The land-grant institution is in the process of becoming the fourth member of the NSF's Center for Autonomic Computing, a national consortium working to develop computer systems with self-management capabilities designed to mitigate the growing complexity of devices and networks.
Mississippi State will join the University of Florida, the University of Arizona and Rutgers University in the NSF CAC initiative, which started in 2008.
Ioana Banicescu, a professor of computer science and principal investigator for the grant, and co-principal investigator Sherif Abdelwahed, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, plan to establish the MSU CAC through the Center for Computational Sciences, a member of the university's High Performance Computing Collaboratory.
Prospective activities of the CAC at Mississippi State will focus on the development of model-driven frameworks, based on model-based or model-free approaches, for autonomic computing systems and applications.
Research at the MSU CAC will contribute to the development of smarter autonomic computing solutions that can reduce the costs of operating large-scale, self-managing systems, and also enhance the reliability and efficiency of applications running one of the services hosted on these systems.
Developing partnerships is a priority for the CAC team, which anticipates significant opportunities for students and faculty, as well as industry and government agencies, to participate.
For more information, contact Banicescu at ioana@cse.msstate.edu
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.