Upgrading of Computer Facility

这次电脑设施的升级将使W.K. 凯洛格生物 密歇根州立大学 大学更有效地实现其使命， 生命系统和资源的研究。 升级将 允许车站 继续作为一个 区域和国家生态卓越中心 研究，鼓励合作研究，并允许更多 广泛利用 大量的投资和 站所代表的资源。 本 计算机系统不足以满足这些功能;它 正在老化，超载， 容易失败， 研究生产力的瓶颈。 校长 升级的成果将是增加系统 可靠性、容量和 支持，并允许 进一步发展维护地方和全世界 区域网络。 该奖项将提供新的共享 设施不能 个人管理 实验室或调查人员，以及-一个改进的网络 支持这种升级所需的基础设施 系统 它还将允许 车站继续 协助其他外地台站发展数据管理 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. * * *