Acquisition of a Graphics Computer System

进行前沿研究的化学家越来越依赖于能够处理复杂模拟、数据分析和图形软件的计算机。单一的解决方案可以满足在一台实验室计算机上容纳多个用户和在一个化学系设施上容纳多个用户的需要：单独的工作站满足大多数用户的需求，对于其余的，随时可以访问其他类型的工作站，并最终访问一台微型超级计算机。这项来自化学共享仪器计划的奖项将帮助北达科他州州立大学化学系获得、维护和操作图形计算机系统。此次收购将加强的化学研究领域包括：1.路易斯酸螯合中间体的理论和实验研究。2.分子内氢键、主族有机金属反应的能量学和动力学。3.天然产物的全合成。

Chemists carrying out frontier research are relying more and more on computers that are capable of handling sophisticated simulations, data analysis and graphics software. The need to accomodate multiple users on the single laboratory computer and multiple users on a single chemistry department facility can be met by a single solution: individual work stations for the majority of user needs and, for the remainder, ready access to other types of work stations and, ultimately, to a mini supercomputer. This award from the Chemistry Shared Instrumentation Program will help the Department of Chemistry at the North Dakota State University to acquire, maintain and operate a graphics computer system. The areas of chemical research that will be enhanced by the acquisition include: 1. Theoretical and experimental studies of Lewis acid chelated intermediates. 2. Intramolecular hydrogen bonding, energetics and dynamics of main group organometallic reactions. 3. Total synthesis of natural products.