Upgrading of Computer Facility

计算机设备的升级将使密歇根州立大学W.K.凯洛格生物站能够更有效地实现其研究生命系统和资源的使命。升级将使该站继续发挥区域和国家生态研究卓越中心的作用，促进合作研究，并允许更广泛地利用该站所代表的大量投资和资源。目前的计算系统不足以满足这些功能；它老化，超载，容易失效，是研究生产力的瓶颈。升级的主要成果将是增加系统可靠性、容量和支助，并允许进一步发展维护本地和广域网。该合同将提供新的共享设施，这些设施不能由单个实验室或研究人员管理，并且需要改进的网络基础设施来支持这一升级系统。它还将使该站能够继续协助其他外地站发展数据管理能力。* * *

This upgrade of computing facilities will allow the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University to realize more effectively its mission of reserch on living systems and resources. The upgrade will allow the station to continue to function as a regional and national center of excellence in ecological research, stimulate collaborative research, and permit more extensive use of the considerable investment and resources which the Station represents. The present computing system is inadequate to meet these functions; it is aging, overloaded, prone to failure and is a bottleneck to research productivity. The principal achievements of the upgrade will be to increase system reliability, capacity, and support, and to allow further development of the maintenance of local and wide area networking. The award will provide new shared facilities which cannot be managed by individual laboratories or investigators and - an improved network infrastructure which is required to support this upgraded system. It will also permit the Station to continue to assist other field stations in developing data management capability. * * *