Purchase of a Parallel Computing Facility

化学研究仪器和设施项目的这一奖项将帮助爱荷华州立大学化学系购买使用IBM SP1的并行计算设施。该设备将加强若干领域的研究，包括：开发和应用电子结构理论、表面动力学和统计力学以及散射理论的并行计算软件。由快速、现代化的计算机工作站组成的工作站网络是满足化工部门计算需求的一种新途径。这种“计算机网络”还作为新的理论代码和算法的开发环境，提供最先进的图形和可视化设施，并支持对最先进的并行处理应用程序的研究。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University in the purchase of a parallel computational facility using IBM SP1. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including the following: the development and application of parallel computational software in electronic structure theory, surface dynamics and statistical mechanics, and scattering theory. A workstation network of fast, modern computer workstations is a new way to satisfy the computing needs of chemistry departments. Such a "computer network" also serves as a development environment for new theoretical codes and algorithms, provides state-of-the- art graphics and visualization facilities and supports research in state-of-the-art applications of parallel processing.