Renovation of the Guggenheim Computing Research Facilities at Georgia Tech

乔治亚理工学院古根海姆计算研究设施的翻新

• 批准号: 9415190
• 负责人: Suresh Menon
• 金额: $ 61.5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-15 至 1997-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9415190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Guggenheim; Computing; Research; Facilities

With the support of NSF, the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech will develop a highly flexible, readily expandable, and low-cost Heterogeneous Computer Environment for Parallel Processing (HCEPP) to provide the primary computational resources for the majority of computational engineering research within the School. The facility will be developed on three floors of the 62-year old Guggenheim Building and is being undertaken in conjunction with building-wide renovations financed by the institution. For over 60 years, the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech has been a national leader in engineering research and research training including activities in fluid dynamics, materials, diagnostics, turbulence, combustion, design optimization, concurrent engineering, and multimedia and complex aerospace system simulation. For several decades, this activity has relied on the use of powerful mainframe computers located in central campus facilities. However, computing technology has provided geometrically expanding computational capabilities in increasingly smaller systems, and these developments have obsoleted the mainframe computer in favor of networked high- performance workstations operating in tightly clustered groups. NSF support will renovate research space within the Guggenheim Building to create an environment for the integration of local computers and high-speed network communications. Funds will be used to develop high-speed FDDI Hubs with Ethernet Switching Hubs for the Ethernet-equipped workstations. Renovations supported under this grant will also provide a pro-rata share of improvements to the building infrastructure including installation of new HVAC capability, and installation of appropriate electrical and fire protection systems. Increased, and dedicated, HVAC capability will be added to meet the specific needs associated with the HCEPP facilities which are in discipline-specific computational labs distributed throughout the three floor environment. The renovated facilities will offer opportunities for new research endeavors including the integration of design, simulation, and large-scale computation involved in multidisciplinary efforts such as the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT); the modeling and simulation of turbulence/chemistry interactions in entire engines; airframe and engine integration and fluid-structure interactions in new aerospace vehicles; and modeling of pollutant dispersion in the atmosphere. Additional students will be able to participate in the research activities through the reconfiguration and rehabilitation of existing space. Currently 76 are enrolled in the program; it is anticipated that research and research training capacity will increase to 158 students (a 107% increase) with completion of the new facilities. Students, including program participants from Clark-Atlanta University, will work with 8 faculty members to explore capabilities in concurrent engineering -- integrating state-of-the-art scientific computational tools interacting automatically with optimization tools, geometrical engines, and tools for analyzing manufacturability and maintainability of products.

在NSF的支持下，格鲁吉亚理工学院的航空航天工程学院将开发一个高度灵活、易于扩展、低成本的并行处理异构计算机环境（HCEPP），为学院内的大多数计算工程研究提供主要的计算资源。 该设施将在有62年历史的古根海姆大楼的三个楼层上开发，并正在与该机构资助的全大楼翻新工程一起进行。 60多年来，航空航天工程学院在格鲁吉亚技术一直是工程研究和研究培训，包括在流体动力学，材料，诊断，湍流，燃烧，设计优化，并行工程，多媒体和复杂的航空航天系统仿真活动的国家领导者。 几十年来，这一活动一直依赖于使用位于校园中心设施的功能强大的主机。 然而，计算技术已经在越来越小的系统中提供了几何扩展的计算能力，并且这些发展已经淘汰了大型计算机，而有利于在紧密集群的组中操作的联网的高性能工作站。 NSF的支持将翻新古根海姆大楼内的研究空间，为本地计算机和高速网络通信的集成创造一个环境。 资金将用于为配备以太网的工作站开发带有以太网交换集线器的高速FDDI集线器。 根据该补助金支持的翻修还将按比例改善建筑基础设施，包括安装新的HVAC功能，以及安装适当的电气和消防系统。 将增加更多的专用HVAC功能，以满足与HCEPP设施相关的特定需求，这些设施位于分布在三层环境中的特定学科计算实验室中。 翻新后的设施将为新的研究工作提供机会，包括设计，模拟和大规模计算的集成，涉及多学科的努力，如高速民用运输（HSCT）;整个发动机中湍流/化学相互作用的建模和模拟;机身和发动机集成以及新航空航天器中的流体结构相互作用;以及大气中污染物扩散的建模。 更多的学生将能够通过现有空间的重新配置和修复参与研究活动。 目前有76人参加该计划;预计随着新设施的完工，研究和研究培训能力将增加到158名学生（增加107%）。 学生，包括来自克拉克-亚特兰大大学的项目参与者，将与8名教职员工一起探索并行工程的能力-集成最先进的科学计算工具，自动与优化工具，几何引擎以及用于分析产品可制造性和可维护性的工具进行交互。