Computational Physics Laboratory Enhancement and Integrationof Computation into Physics Curriculum

计算物理实验室的增强以及计算与物理课程的整合

• 批准号: 9450841
• 负责人: Rubin Landau
• 金额: $ 5.38万
• 依托单位: Oregon State 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: 1994-09-15 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9450841&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computational; Physics; Laboratory; Enhancement; Integrationof

9450841 Landau The project substantially enhances the computer lab component of the Computational Physics class developed and taught for six years. Specifically, the number of X-terminals and the number of CPU's are increased. The three-fourfold increase in power and access permits the inclusion of computational tools into the general physics curriculum -- in parallel with the Computational Physics class-- and eliminates bottlenecks when the entire class works on numerically-intensive projects. All the high performance workstations in the physics department are being connected with the two new ones, and then the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) software will run on all machines. This will create a powerful, distributed memory parallel computer which gives students needed experience in message passing and synchronization primitives. The additional facility has also permitted the extension of the Computational Physics course to an extra term, and thus continue the development of projects which can be used throughout the physics curriculum. Finally, the equipment strengthens and broadens the Physics Department's computing resources as a means to assist in the development of an interdisciplinary Computational Science program.

该项目大大提高了计算物理课程的计算机实验室组成部分，该课程已经开发和教授了六年。具体来说，x终端的数量和CPU的数量都增加了。能力和访问能力的三到四倍的提高使得计算工具可以与计算物理课程并行地纳入普通物理课程，并消除了整个班级在处理数字密集型项目时的瓶颈。物理系的所有高性能工作站都与这两台新工作站连接，然后并行虚拟机（PVM）软件将在所有机器上运行。这将创建一个功能强大的分布式内存并行计算机，为学生提供消息传递和同步原语所需的经验。额外的设施还允许将计算物理课程延长到一个额外的学期，从而继续开发可以在整个物理课程中使用的项目。最后，该设备加强和拓宽了物理系的计算资源，作为一种手段，以协助跨学科计算科学计划的发展。