Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Computer Equipment for Electromagnetics Research

这项工程研究设备拨款将用于升级电气工程系的MicroVAX II系统，使其既可作为计算资源，又可作为个人电脑、终端和新图形工作站的局域网服务器。这将为该系提供与校园内的Cyber 205超级计算机的有效连接，教师和学生可以有效地使用该超级计算机来扩展他们在更高水平上进行研究的能力。目标是追求数值程序和技术解决三维电磁学问题，涉及任意形状和任意材料组成的对象。这类问题通常需要1)大量的几何输入数据，在许多情况下，这些数据只能使用图形技术实际生成和检查；2)大量的计算资源用于数值解；3)广泛的图形输出能力，以方便解释、评估和表示的方式表示结果。如果没有拟议的图形工作站功能，这种先进的电磁学研究就无法在大学轻松进行。有效地访问适当的计算资源也是必要的。

This Engineering Research Equipment Grant will be used to upgrade the MicroVAX II system of the Department of Electrical Engineering to serve both as a computational resource and as a local area network server for PC's, terminals, and new graphics workstations. This will provide the Department with an efficient link to a Cyber 205 supercomputer on campus which can be used effectively by faculty and students to extend their ability to perform research at a more advanced level. The goal is to pursue numerical procedures and techniques for the solution of 3- dimensional electromagnetics problems involving objects of both arbitrary shape and arbitrary material composition. Such problems generally require 1) extensive volumetric geometric input data, which can only be practically generated and checked using graphics techniques in many cases, 2) massive computational resources for the numerical solution, and 3) extensive graphics output capability to represent results in a manner convenient for interpretation, evaluation, and presentation. Without the proposed graphic workstation capability, this type of advanced electromagnetics research cannot be easily pursued at the University. Efficient access to appropriate computational resources is also necessary.