Large-Scale Emulation for Enterprise Software Systems. This project will deliver a key future software technology for scalable quality assurance of highly interconnected enterprise IT systems, significantly contributing to more reliable and effective business operations in all industry sectors. It will fill a market gap and give Australian businesses a world competitive advantage. The project will generate world-leading research outcomes and further cement Australia’s leading research position i ....Large-Scale Emulation for Enterprise Software Systems. This project will deliver a key future software technology for scalable quality assurance of highly interconnected enterprise IT systems, significantly contributing to more reliable and effective business operations in all industry sectors. It will fill a market gap and give Australian businesses a world competitive advantage. The project will generate world-leading research outcomes and further cement Australia’s leading research position in enterprise software systems engineering. In particular, it will make major contributions to research into complex large-scale system interaction, system performance and scalability, and system behaviour modelling. The project also provides an excellent training environment for young researchers. Read moreRead less
A framework for modelling feature variability and dependencies in software product lines. In most Australian software development organisations software products are developed individually rather than product line based. This project will promote the awareness of product line based software development and provide a frontier technology, the effective feature modelling approaches, to help Australian software industry transform from the single product based development to the product line based de ....A framework for modelling feature variability and dependencies in software product lines. In most Australian software development organisations software products are developed individually rather than product line based. This project will promote the awareness of product line based software development and provide a frontier technology, the effective feature modelling approaches, to help Australian software industry transform from the single product based development to the product line based development to achieve significant improvement on the productivity and the quality of the software development. This improvement will dramatically reduce the cost of software products and alleviate the pressure of skill shortage that currently threatens Australian economy.Read moreRead less
A scalable debugging framework for petascale computers. Supercomputing underpins a wide range of areas of importance to the Australian economy; mining, agriculture, engineering, medical research and pharmaceutical development to name a few. It is of critical importance that software solutions in these areas behave correctly and do not generate erroneous results. This project will develop software tools and techniques that make it possible to detect and locate errors as software is converted to r ....A scalable debugging framework for petascale computers. Supercomputing underpins a wide range of areas of importance to the Australian economy; mining, agriculture, engineering, medical research and pharmaceutical development to name a few. It is of critical importance that software solutions in these areas behave correctly and do not generate erroneous results. This project will develop software tools and techniques that make it possible to detect and locate errors as software is converted to run on the next generation of 'petascale' supercomputers. We will deploy the tools both commercially through our industry partner, and also on national high performance computing facilities.Read moreRead less
Economic Scheduling for Efficient Management of Clusters and their Cooperative Federation. Clusters of commodity computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance computing. They are presented together as a single, unified resource to the end users by middleware technologies such as resource management and scheduling (RMS) systems. However, existing cluster RMS systems continue to use system centric models rather than utility models for the management a ....Economic Scheduling for Efficient Management of Clusters and their Cooperative Federation. Clusters of commodity computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance computing. They are presented together as a single, unified resource to the end users by middleware technologies such as resource management and scheduling (RMS) systems. However, existing cluster RMS systems continue to use system centric models rather than utility models for the management and allocation of resources. There is also little emphasis on the construction of a cooperative federation of clusters to facilitate transparent sharing of resources. To enhance the value delivered by shared clusters, we propose the use of computational economy metaphor in resource management. This project aims to develop (A) computational economy based scheduling policies for allocation of resources and (B) a software infrastructure for creation of cooperative federation of distributed clusters.Read moreRead less
A Grid based platform for multi-scaled biological simulation. Heart disease currently affects over 3.5 million Australians. In 2006 it claimed the lives of almost 46,000 Australians (34% of all deaths). We will develop enabling technology that underpins cardiac disease research, offering potential for new treatments and pharmaceutical therapies. Even a small improvement in this area can translate into significant national benefit. Further, the mathematical techniques and software tools we will d ....A Grid based platform for multi-scaled biological simulation. Heart disease currently affects over 3.5 million Australians. In 2006 it claimed the lives of almost 46,000 Australians (34% of all deaths). We will develop enabling technology that underpins cardiac disease research, offering potential for new treatments and pharmaceutical therapies. Even a small improvement in this area can translate into significant national benefit. Further, the mathematical techniques and software tools we will develop, whilst focused on heart tissue, will have broader applicability, and may underpin advancements in other disciplines. Finally, we expect that the software solutions and infrastructure will have both commercial and strategic value in their own right.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101081
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$360,000.00
Summary
Adaptive value-flow analysis to improve code reliability and security. This project aims to develop client-driven adaptive value-flow analysis to detect software bugs in system software written in the C/C++ programme language. Static analysis tools for automated code inspections can benefit software developers, but are imprecise, inefficient and not user-friendly for analysing real-world industrial-sized software. The project will investigate static, dynamic and user-guided value-flow analysis t ....Adaptive value-flow analysis to improve code reliability and security. This project aims to develop client-driven adaptive value-flow analysis to detect software bugs in system software written in the C/C++ programme language. Static analysis tools for automated code inspections can benefit software developers, but are imprecise, inefficient and not user-friendly for analysing real-world industrial-sized software. The project will investigate static, dynamic and user-guided value-flow analysis to efficiently and precisely analyse large-scale programs according to clients’ needs, thereby allowing compilers to generate safe, reliable and secure code. This project is expected to advance value-flow analysis for industrial-sized software, improve software reliability and security, and benefit Australian software systems and industries.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0566976
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$50,000.00
Summary
eScience and Climate: Using Grid technology to build capacity in studies of Australian climate variability. Australia possesses capability in the area of palaeoclimate modelling, but efforts to understand our past natural climate variations are hampered by the computational profligacy of such models. Further, Australia does not possess a capability in intermediate complexity models which would allow experiments that take account of tectonic time scales. This initiative aims to develop a framewor ....eScience and Climate: Using Grid technology to build capacity in studies of Australian climate variability. Australia possesses capability in the area of palaeoclimate modelling, but efforts to understand our past natural climate variations are hampered by the computational profligacy of such models. Further, Australia does not possess a capability in intermediate complexity models which would allow experiments that take account of tectonic time scales. This initiative aims to develop a framework to allow the integration of climate system models with grid computing approaches (such as Nimrod/G) and test this framework on a pilot study of the Australian palaeomonsoon system. In addition, we will use this initiative to develop international linkages to enhance our ability to address problems of importance to Australian natural climate variability.Read moreRead less
Model-based error location in Java programs. The construction of modern software requires extensive testing and
debugging in addition to using appropriate specification, design, and
verification techniques. Testing and debugging are very time-consuming
and costly, drawing - according to recent articles - "typically 50%
or more of the resources for software projects''. By providing a new,
flexible approach to the debugging of complex software, this project
offers the potential of significant cost ....Model-based error location in Java programs. The construction of modern software requires extensive testing and
debugging in addition to using appropriate specification, design, and
verification techniques. Testing and debugging are very time-consuming
and costly, drawing - according to recent articles - "typically 50%
or more of the resources for software projects''. By providing a new,
flexible approach to the debugging of complex software, this project
offers the potential of significant cost savings, highly beneficial to
the ICT industry. Lessons learned from the demonstration prototype,
can be directly carried over into commercial tool development. In
addition, the project strengthens links to high quality European
research laboratories.Read moreRead less
GriddLeS: Building Grid Applications from Legacy Software. Grid computing is emerging as a major new capability for modern, high performance technical computing. Such Grids couple geographically distributed resources such as high performance computers, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments. Traditional methods of producing software for Grids are inefficient and error prone, and will not allow the rapid deployment of new applications. This project concerns the development of a tool t ....GriddLeS: Building Grid Applications from Legacy Software. Grid computing is emerging as a major new capability for modern, high performance technical computing. Such Grids couple geographically distributed resources such as high performance computers, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments. Traditional methods of producing software for Grids are inefficient and error prone, and will not allow the rapid deployment of new applications. This project concerns the development of a tool that will facilitate the construction of complex Grid application using legacy software components. It will test the new ideas with a range of scientific demonstrators, including atmospheric science, geo-science and mechanical engineering.Read moreRead less
Model-based error location in concurrent software. The construction of modern software requires extensive testing and debugging in addition to using appropriate specification, design, and verification techniques. Testing and debugging are very time-consuming and costly, drawing - according to recent articles - ``typically 50\% or more of the resources for software projects''. By extending the power of a new, flexible debugging approach, this project offers the potential of significant cost savin ....Model-based error location in concurrent software. The construction of modern software requires extensive testing and debugging in addition to using appropriate specification, design, and verification techniques. Testing and debugging are very time-consuming and costly, drawing - according to recent articles - ``typically 50\% or more of the resources for software projects''. By extending the power of a new, flexible debugging approach, this project offers the potential of significant cost savings, highly beneficial to any industry with a significant ICT component, e.g., defense. Lessons learned from the demonstration prototype, can be directly carried over into commercial tool development. The project strengthens links to high quality European research laboratories.Read moreRead less