Parallel Supercomputing at Caltech: Instrumentation Proposal

该合同将支持570节点英特尔德尔塔试金石系统的采购。这将是世界上最快的计算机。这台计算机将被安置在加州理工学院的校园里，但已经通过并发超级计算联盟获得。该联盟有14个成员，包括联邦机构、政府实验室、大学和英特尔。使用这台机器的直接好处将是解决神经生物学、化学物理学、流体动力学和天体物理学等领域的问题。研究人员将解决现有计算机无法解决的这些和其他领域的问题。在这项研究中，科学正在推动计算硬件和软件的发展。这组研究人员在这台机器上获得的经验将向全国的科学家展示并行超级计算机的使用。此外，它将有助于开发新的并行架构。

This award will support the purchase of the 570-node Intel Delta Touchstone System. This will be the world's fastest computer. The computer will be housed on the California Institute of Technology's campus, but has been acquired through the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium. There are 14 members of the consortium, ranging from federal agencies, government labs, universities and Intel. The immediate benefit of the use of this machine will be to solve problems in areas of neurobiology, chemical physics, fluid dynamics and astrophysics. The researchers will attack problems in these and other areas that could not be approached with existing computers. The science, in this research, is driving the development of computational hardware and software. Experience gained by this set of researchers on this machine will demonstrate the use of parallel supercomputers to the nation's scientists. Further, it will help in developing new parallel architectures.