Concurrent Processing Methods for Nonlinear Structural Dynamics

这个雄心勃勃的提案获得了三个VG评审和一个g评审。它是一个真正的跨学科的努力，涉及到结构力学、计算机科学和优化，横跨科罗拉多大学的四个系：机械工程、航空航天工程、电子工程和计算机科学。总体目标是实施适用于解决大型结构力学问题（例如计划中的空间站）所需的并行处理的方法。即使是最低的评论者也表示“这是一个有趣的提议”。这确实是一个“有趣”的提议，值得支持，但不是最初要求的夸大金额。项目资金的现实情况使得只有两年的资金支持是必要的，考虑到目前所涉及的教师的支持，有必要将他们从资金中剔除。正如一位审稿人所建议的那样，这意味着研究的范围将不得不大幅缩减，但这仍然是“一个已经很复杂的问题”。这种支持的一个主要方面是在工作中包括四名研究生。对于这些学生来说，这是一个极好的机会，可以在他们的教育中接触到大量的跨学科努力。新的预算是直接与PI谈判的，并得到了大学的批准。我推荐两年的标准资助，因为CSE/NT项目已经大量投入到未来，进一步的项目资助前景是不确定的。两年的资助水平将是：第一年- 138,548美元，第二年- 154,420 --------- 292,968美元

This very ambitious proposal received three VG reviews and one G. It is truly an interdisciplinary effort involving people involved in structural mechanics, computer science, and optimization, and cuts across four departments at the University of Colorado, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. The overall goal is to implement methods appropriate for parallel processing which are necessary to solve large structural mechanics problems, e.g., a projected space station. Even the lowest reviewer stated that "this is an interesting proposal". This is indeed an "interesting" proposal and deserves support, but not at the inflated amount originally requested. The realities of program funding make it necessary to fund this for only two years, and consideration of the current support of the faculty involved makes it necessary to eliminate them from the funding. As recommended by one of the reviewers, this means that the scope of the research will have to be cut back considerably, but it is still "an already complicated problem". One of the major aspects of this support is the inclusion of four graduate students in the work. This is an excellent opportunity for these students to be exposed to a significant amount of cross disciplinary effort during their education. The new budget was negotiated directly with the PI's, and approved by the university. I recommend funding as a standard grant for two years since the CSE/NT program is already heavily committed into the future, and further program funding prospects are uncertain. The two year funding levels will be: Year 1 - $ 138,548 Year 2 - 154,420 --------- $ 292,968