High Performance Workstation Laboratory

这项提议将通过建立一个高性能的工作站实验室并使用工作站和专门的成套软件分配项目来加强高级专业课程的课程。具体课程和课程改进如下。(1)将开发一门新课程，系统性能建模，该课程将使用各种模拟工具对学生项目中的计算机系统进行建模和分析。(2)将通过纳入PHIG标准和使用PHIG软件包的作业来加强计算机图形学课程。(3)数值分析课程将扩大到包括使用现代数值分析程序包来解决代表性问题和绘制图表，并包括符号计算。(4)建模和仿真课程将使用复杂的仿真工具来设计更详细和图形增强的模型。(5)数据通信课程将使用专门设计的网络模拟工具来介绍以前不可能实现的伪“动手”项目。(6)德克萨斯大学免费提供的Interactive Lisp将增强LISP、人工智能和编程语言课程的能力。(7)鼓励本科生使用所提供的工作站和工具来完成因资源不足而提出但尚未完成的研究项目。(8)如果可能，将获得其他软件，如CASE工具、电路仿真器、C++、PROLOG和数据库，并将项目并入相应的类。

This proposal will enhance the curriculum in upper division major courses by establishing a high performance workstation laboratory and assigning projects using the workstations and specialized software packages. The specific courses and curricular enhancements are as follows. (1) a new course, systems performance modelling, which will use a variety of simulation tools to model and analyze computer systems in student projects will be developed. (2) The computer graphics course will be enhanced through inclusion of the PHIG standard and assignments utilizing a PHIG software package. (3) The numerical analysis course will be expanded to include use of a modern numerical analysis programming package for solution and graphing of representative problems and the inclusion of symbolic computations. (4) The modelling and simulation course will use sophisticated simulation tools to design more detailed and graphically enhanced models. (5) The data communications course will use specially designed network simulation tools to introduce pseudo "hands-on" projects not previously possible. (6) Interactive LISP, available free from the University of Texas, will allow enhanced capabilities in the LISP, artificial intelligence, and programming languages courses. (7) Undergraduates will be encouraged to use the workstations and tools provided to complete research projects proposed but not completed due to lack of resources. (8) If possible, additional software such as CASE tools, circuit simulators, C++, PROLOG, and databases will be acquired and projects incorporated into the corresponding classes.