Acquisition of a New Scientific Computer

购买一台新的科学计算机

• 批准号: 9403009
• 负责人: Natalie Holzwarth
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Wake Forest University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1995-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9403009&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; New; Scientific; Computer

Partial support is provided for the acquisition of a scientific computing system for the Wake Forest University Physics and Chemistry departments. The primary use of this facility would be to support the departments' research in theoretical condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum field theory in curved space. At present these departments operate a system consisting of two Convex C-120 vectorizing minisupercomputers. The proposed new system will replace these obsolete computers with a cluster of the latest RISC superscalar processors. The problems to be studied include: 1) density functional investigation of surface reconstruction and of electron tunneling; 2) nonlinear effects in the dynamics of structural phase transitions; 3) point defect structures in solids; 4) effects of quantum fields on black hole spacetimes; and 5) quantum chemical investigation of atmospheric molecular species. The computer configuration to be purchased is a cluster of Hewlett-Packard workstations, configured into a Meta-system by Convex. The system consists of the following hardware: four HP 9000/735 computational nodes each with 128 Megabytes of memory and a 1 Gigabyte internal disk; 20 Gigabyte of external disk storage; an additional HP 9000/735 with smaller memory and disk for system administration. Convex packages the HP workstations into a single unit and provides software that unifies the system operation and includes a library of highly optimized scientific subroutines.

为维克森林大学物理系和化学系购置科学计算系统提供了部分支助。该设施的主要用途将是支持部门的理论凝聚态物理，量子化学和弯曲空间量子场论的研究。目前，这些部门运行的系统由两台凸C-120矢量化微型超级计算机组成。拟议中的新系统将用一组最新的RISC超标量处理器取代这些过时的计算机。要研究的问题包括：1）表面重建和电子隧穿的密度泛函研究; 2）结构相变动力学中的非线性效应; 3）固体中的点缺陷结构; 4）量子场对黑洞时空的影响; 5）大气分子物种的量子化学研究。要购买的计算机配置是一组Hewlett-Packard工作站，由Convex配置为元系统。该系统由以下硬件组成：四个HP 9000/735计算节点，每个节点具有128 MB内存和1 MB内部磁盘; 20 MB外部磁盘存储;另一个HP 9000/735，具有较小的内存和磁盘，用于系统管理。 Convex将HP工作站打包成一个单元，并提供统一系统操作的软件，包括高度优化的科学子程序库。