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Parallel and Distributed Intelligent Systems
Virendrakumar C. BhavsarProfessor and
Director, Advanced Computational Research Laboratory
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB
www.cs.unb.ca/profs/bhavsar
www.cs.unb.ca/acrl
OutlineOutline
Past Research Work Current Research Work Conclusion
Past Research Work Past Research Work
Parallel/Distributed Processing
- Parallel Computer Architecture- Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms- Real-time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Artificial Neural Networks
Learning Machines and Evolutionary Computation
Computer Graphics
Visualization
Advanced Computational Research Advanced Computational Research
LaboratoryLaboratory High Performance Computational Problem-
Solving and Visualization Environment Computational Experiments in multiple
disciplines: CS, Science and Eng. 16-Processor IBM SP3 Member of C3.ca Association, Inc.
(http://www.c3.ca)
Advanced Computational Research Advanced Computational Research
LaboratoryLaboratory www.cs.unb.ca/acrl
Virendra Bhavsar, Director Chris MacPhee, Scientific Computing Support Sean Seeley, System Administrator
ACRL’s IBM SPACRL’s IBM SP
4 Winterhawk II nodes– 16 processors; 24
GFLOPS
High Perforrnance Switch
Disk
Gigabit Ethernet
IBM SP at ACRL: The Clustered SMPIBM SP at ACRL: The Clustered SMP
Four 4-way SMPs
Each node has its own copy of the O/S
Processors on the node are closer than those on differentnodes
IBM Power3 SP SwitchIBM Power3 SP Switch
Bidirectional multistage interconnection networks (MIN)
300 MB/sec bi-directional 1.2 sec latency
Past Research Work (cont.)Past Research Work (cont.)
Multimedia for Education: Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Multi-Lingual Systems and Transliteration
Web Portal with an Intelligent User Profile Generator
Multi-Agent Systems
Supervision/Co-supervision 50 master's theses; 4 doctoral theses 5 post-doctoral fellows/research associates
Current Research WorkCurrent Research Work
Parallel/Distributed Processing
-PaGrid: A Mesh Partitioner for Computational Grids - Dynamic Partitioning for Efficient Processing on Parallel Computers
Multi-Agent Systems (Distributed Artificial Intelligence)- Multi-Agent System for Automatic Annotation of EST Sequences (funded by ‘The Canadian Potato Genomics’)
- CS6999: Multi-Agent Systems- Dynamic Clustering of Agents in the Café- Agents with Ontology-based Keyphrases and Tree-distance algorithms - Scalability studies of Multi-Agent Systems- eCommerce applications
Current Research WorkCurrent Research Work
eLearning (eduSorceCanada Project)
- Reuse and exchange course content stored as “learning objects.’’
- Implementation and testing of learning objects using CanCore metadata
-XML schema for content packaging- other projects
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What is a GRID SystemWhat is a GRID System
Cooperative network of shared resources- Includes computers, network links, human resources and databases
Supports the development of advanced R&D applications in Science, Engineering and Technology Development, Finance and the Arts.
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GRID ApplicationsGRID Applications
Large scale and resource intensive frontier applications– R&D applications that go beyond current technological
capabilities– Technology development applications in multi-media,
finance, production arts, hard sciences and engineering.
- Multi-media applications such as embedded video, digital video servers and video conferencing.
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Current C3.ca RP NetworkCurrent C3.ca RP Network
The Canadian Potato Genomics Project
• 46% of national potato production $1 Billion/year
ATLANTIC CANADA
• Solanum Genomics International Inc.
• Potato Research Center of AAFC
• Home of McCain Foods Ltd. $5.5 billion/year
Research Areas
• Bioinformatic Analysis• Access to resources via CBR membership/node status• Raw sequence processing and analysis by Fredericton bioinformatics group (Vector trimming, base calling, clustering, contig assembly, BLAST, annotations)• Relational database management system of CPGP to link NRC (sequencing), CBR and researchers• In silico assignment of gene function• Microarray data
The Canadian Potato Genomics Project
The Canadian Potato Genomics Project
Research Areas
• Bioinformatic Research To Suit Project Needs (UNB):• Autonomous agent development to automatically update sequence annotations• Enhancement of bioinformatic algorithm performance with parallel computing• Algorithm development using annotation information to enhance sequence searching• The application of clustering and learning techniques to the analysis of expression data
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
anwhere.else
cs.stir.ac.ukmeto.gov.uk
ucsd.eduai.it.nrc.ca
Clients
Café Café
Café
Performance Evaluation of ACORNPerformance Evaluation of ACORN
Test-bed: Several Autonomous Servers, each serving autonomous virtual users
Virtual User - capable of creating agents
- picks up a topic from a client core’s interest
- migrates to other servers
- potential destinations
Performance Evaluation of ACORNPerformance Evaluation of ACORN
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Time (Seconds)
0 20 40 60 80 100 Number of Agents
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Mingle Time with cosine Total Exection Time with cosine
Mingle Time for without cosine Total Exection Time without cosine
Why learning objects?Why learning objects?
• COST: 1000s of colleges have common course topics
• large numbers of courses are going online
• World does not need 1000s of similar learning topics
• World needs only about a dozen
• Expensive to develop so sharing is essential
(From Downes, 2000)
Design courses as a
collection of learning
objects NOT HTML
What is METADATAWhat is METADATA??
datadata about about datadata
Example: Example: January 31, January 31, 20012001
31 janvier 31 janvier 20012001
2001-01-312001-01-3101-31-200001-31-20003101200031012000
Metadata standards are agreed-on Metadata standards are agreed-on criteria for describing data to support criteria for describing data to support interoperabilityinteroperability
Metadata and RDF Metadata and RDF implementationimplementation
* * Resource Description Resource Description FrameworkFramework(RDF) = structure(RDF) = structure
* * XMLXML
Metadata =Metadata =semantics & resourcessemantics & resources
ConclusionConclusion
Parallel/Distributed Processing
Multi-Agent Systems (Distributed Artificial Intelligence) NSERC Project, The Canadian Potato Genomics Project
eLearning (eduSorceCanada Project)
Automated and manually-driven user profile generation and update
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