CISE Research Instrumentation: Architectural Enhancement for Connection Machine Environment

波士顿大学打算购买一台Think Machines Corporation Connection Machine，型号为CM-5型，以增强波士顿大学的大规模并行科学计算环境。该合同是对购买20 GB的CM-5磁盘阵列单元的奖励。该设备将用于支持冻结的分子动力学模拟、神经网络模拟、量子化学计算、高能物理粒子跟踪模拟、等离子体模拟和N体系统中的混沌的研究。波士顿大学将在其增强的大规模并行科学计算环境中进行基于计算的研究，这些研究需要大型常微分方程组和/或大型矩阵系统的高精度解。它收购了一台Think Machines的CM-5机器，并由此获得了一个20 GB的CM-5磁盘阵列单元，这将使波士顿大学能够支持分子动力学、神经网络、量子化学、粒子跟踪和等离子体模拟方面的项目。

Boston University intends to buy a Thinking Machines Corporation Connection Machine, Model CM-5 to enhance Boston University's massively parallel scientific computing environment. This award is for the purchase of a 20 Gigabyte CM-5 disk array unit. The equipment will be used to support research in molecular dynamics simulation of freezing, simulation of neural networks, quantum chemistry calculations, high energy physics particle tracking simulations, plasma simulations and chaos in N-body systems. Computationally-based research which requires high precision solutions of large systems of ordinary differential equations and /or large matrix systems, will be pursued on-site at Boston University in its enhanced massively parallel scientific computing environment. Its acquisition of a Thinking Machines' CM-5 Machine, and from this award, a 20 Gigabyte CM-5 disk array unit, will enable Boston University to support projects in molecular dynamics, neural networks, quantum chemistry, particle tracking and plasma simulation.