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The Multiscale Systems Center
The information-technology platform is being radically
transformed as we speak. A new generation of applications
is emerging that are destined to run in distributed form on
a platform that meshes high-performance compute clusters
with broad classes of mobiles, surrounded in turn by even
larger swarms of sensors. The broad majority of these new
applications can be classified as distributed sense and
control systems that go substantially beyond the "compute"
or "communicate" functions traditionally associated with
information-technology. They have the potential to
radically influence how we deal with a broad range of
crucial problems facing our society today: power delivery
in emerging micro-grids, emergency response to natural and
man-made disasters, wireless healthcare with individualized
monitoring, national infrastructural monitoring and
adaptation, detection of anomalous events and behaviors in
physical or cyberspace for security, or real-time
situational awareness on the battlefield, etc. In fact, the
opportunities are limited only by our imagination.
The grand goal of the Multiscale Systems Center
is to create a comprehensive
and systematic solution to the distributed multi-scale
system design challenge. While addressing the full
portfolio of needs, we have specifically selected as grand
challenge the development of "energy-smart" distributed
systems: that is, distributed systems that are deeply aware
of the balance between energy availability and demand, and
adjust their behavior in response through dynamic and
adaptive optimization through all scales of the design
hierarchy.
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Welcome to the
Multiscale Systems Center
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