Proposed Research Agenda for CHREC at Virginia Tech

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Proposed Research Agenda for CHREC at Virginia
Tech

• Shawn A. Bohner
• Proposed Co-Director of CHREC
• Associate Professor of CS, Virginia Tech

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Standing on the Shoulders of CHREC

• Virginia Tech Synergies What we bring to the
  table
• Center for Human Computer Interaction
• Configurable Computing Laboratory
• High Performance Computing

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Preliminary Research Agenda(subject to NSF and
IAB approval)

• I. Application case studies and HLL mappers
• II. Profiling, prediction, and performance
  analysis
• III. Systems infrastructure and middleware
• IV. Architecture and framework for embedded
  qualified RC systems
• V. Visual Analytics and Model Driven Development
  for HPRC Systems
• Human-Computer elements of developing RC
  applications
• Model-Driven Development for HPRC Systems

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V. Visual MDD for HPRC Systems

• Exploit Emerging HCI in HPRC Development
• Experiment with Very Large Display Technologies
• Multiple large displays on a HPRC Design
  workstation
• Large visual real estate for resource intensive
  HPRC problems
• Apply 3D Display and Interaction Technologies
• GigaPixel Displays for Team HPRC Developments
• Virtual Environments for HPRC Design and Test
• Explore HPRC Model Driven Development
• Bridging Analysis, Design, and Component modeling
• Mappings/Transforms from existing analysis to
  design models
• Automated Code Generation from Models
• Integrating Performance Models into HPRC Code
• Weaving model representations into source code
• Performance, power, design complexity,
  portability models

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HCI Workstation of the Future
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HCI Interdisciplinary Engineering Room
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Model Based Engineering Vision/Space
ComputationIndependentModel
PlatformIndependentModel
Platform SpecificModel
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Model Based Engineering Vision/Space
Specific Application Model
ComputationIndependentModel
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Application Domain Model (ADM) (e.g., Hydrology
and Windsheer)
PlatformIndependentModel
Application Components Model (ACM) (e.g., Math
Libraries)
Platform SpecificModel
Platform Architecture Components
High Level Language Development Environment
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Model Based Engineering Vision/Space-2
Optimization Models
Performance Models
Simulation Models
Specific Application Models
. . .
Application Domain Models
Application Components Models
Platform Architecture Components
HLL Development Environment
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Human Computer Interaction for HPRC

• Short Term - Use of very large and multiple
  displays for navigating the tasks in developing
  HPRC systems
• Medium Term - Integrate visually the models for
  evolution and performance (e.g., domain models,
  architecture, layout, parallelism, efficiency,
  latency) for the developers
• Long Term HPRC Development Environment of the
  Future, where programming of RC devices moves up
  in abstraction to integrated models that reflect
  the problem domain so that domain experts can
  work with engineers effectively to quickly and
  accurately produce solutions using reconfigurable
  technologies or even hybrid systems

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Model-Based Development of HPRC Systems

• Short Term Augment existing development
  environments with models relevant to expressing
  engineering representations that are commonly
  used by HPRC engineers
• Medium Term Build out the MBD for HPRC to
  incorporate key transforms and mappings, and to
  accommodate human-in-the-loop for the evolution
  to complete canonical forms
• Long Term Full-model based solution, where more
  canonical abstractions are employed that are
  represented in models and through a series of
  elaborations and refinements that involve
  components, parameters, and the like, a system is
  generated

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Potential CHREC VT Founding Members

• Research Partners (prospective in dialogue)
• Aerospace Corporation
• NASA Goddard
• SAIC
• MITRE Corporation
• IBM Research
• Navy Dahlgren
• BIT Corporation
• Luna Innovations

• Equipment Partners
• (prospective in dialogue)
• DRC
• Mitrionics

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CHREC _at_ Virginia Tech Faculty

• Dr. Shawn A. Bohner, Assoc. Professor of CS
• Proposed Co-Director
• Director of Systems and Software Engineering Lab
• Focus on Change Tolerant Systems, Engineering HCI
  intensive systems,
• Dr. Peter Athanas, Professor of ECE
• Director of the Configurable Computing Laboratory
• Bitstream manipulation, dynamic wires,
  application domains
• Dr. Wu-Chun Feng, Associate Professor of CS and
  ECE
• Director of the Synergy Laboratory
• Focus on Low-Power Power Computing,
  Bioinformatics
• Dr. Francis K.H. Quek, Professor of CS
• Director of the Center for Human Computer
  Interaction
• Focus on Aware and Visual Technologies applied in
  Engineering

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Shawn Bohner Change Tolerant Systems

• Selected Research
• Managed System Evolution
• Model Driven Architecture in Agent Based Systems
  (DARPA)
• Adaptive Architectures
• Visualization
• UML Design Advisor (Siemens Corporate Research)
• Information Visualization for Intelligence (SAIC
  RDEC)
• Impact Analysis
• Security Impact Analysis Virtual Environment
  (JMU/CISC)
• Dependency Analysis
• Change Navigation

Visualization and Modeling
Visualization and Interaction
High Perf. Reconf. Computing (HPRC)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Component Integration
Model-Based Engineering

• Research Team
• Boby George Modeling Architecture Dependency
• Muhammad AlKandari Archit. Driven Project
  Planning
• DongKwan Kim Aspect OrientedPerformance
  Modeling
• Albert Park Visualization Evaluation Environment

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Peter Athanas Reconfigurable Computing

• Selected Research
• Dynamic Module Server
• Run-time task assembly in FPGAs
• Bitstream Manipulation
• JBits4.0
• Dynamic wires
• Secure Software Processor
• HW interlocks protection
• Anti-tamper / code protection
• Cognitive Radios
• Harris Corp. Morpheus platform
• Collaborative Communications
• Swarm intelligence applied to signal
  modulation
• Trusted Circuits in FPGAs
• FPGA hardware anti-tamper
• http//www.ccm.ece.vt.edu

Visualization and Modeling
Visualization and Interaction
High Perf. Reconf. Computing (HPRC)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Component Integration
Model-Based Engineering

• Research Team
• Prof. Cameron Patterson
• Security, trusted computing
• Prof. Mark Jones
• HPC
• Diverse laboratory with three dozen students

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Wu-chun Feng High-Perf. Computing

• Selected Research
• Sequence Search mpiBLAST
• http//www.mpiblast.org/
• The ubiquitous parallel tool for pairwise
  sequence alignment, e.g., Google search
  mpiBLAST
• High-Performance Networking
• Generic protocol off-load engines for SAN and WAN
• Low-Power Power-Aware Computing (at Compile and
  Run Time)
• Energy power savings while computing with
  minimal impact on performance.
• Green500 List http//www.green500.org/

Visualization and Modeling
Visualization and Interaction
High Perf. Reconf. Computing (HPRC)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Component Integration
Model-Based Engineering

• Research Team
• Jeremy Archuleta mpiBLAST on Hardware
  Accelerators
• Chris Goddard Service-Oriented Architecture for
  mpiBLAST
• Sushant Sharma Protocols for High-Performance
  Networking
• Song Huang Power-Aware Architecture

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VT Center for Human Computer Interaction
Visualization and Modeling
Francis Quek, Director
Visualization and Interaction

• Selected Research
• Aware Rooms
• Gesture tracking and interpretation (DTO)
• Multimodal interaction with multiple devices
  (NSF)
• Visualization
• Multimedia Visualization, Interaction and Access
  (DTO)
• Expansive High-Resolution Displays and
  Interaction
• Interaction and Usability
• 3D Multi-Platform/Multi-Resolution Interaction
• Extensive Experience in Usability Design and
  Testing
• Collaboration Technologies
• Virtual/Augmented Reality

High Perf. Reconf. Computing (HPRC)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Component Integration
Model-Based Engineering

• Research Team
• Francis Quek Aware and Embodied Interaction
• Doug Bowman Virtual Reality/3D Interaction
• Chris North Visualization, large Displays
• Denis Gracanin Distributed Virtual Environments
• 20 faculty with broad HCI Research portfolio