Upgrade of the Geophysics Computing Facility at the University of Connecticut

9506613科米尔这笔赠款提供16,625美元，作为康涅狄格大学斯托尔斯分校地球物理研究小组计算设施升级的部分支助。该大学将提供等额的升级费用。地球物理计算设施是两个地球物理系(弗农·科米尔和罗洛夫·韦尔斯蒂格)及其学生在地球深部结构、地震波传播、地震处理和反演以及环境地球物理领域工作的主要研究设施。该设施还为地质学系(Tim Byrne)提供服务，作为区域构造建模的主要计算资源，并通常为教职员工和研究生提供数学计算平台。皮科米尔是理论地震学的领军人物之一，而皮恩·伯恩是日本构造方面的领先专家。具体地说，此次升级将包括一台大内存的中央Unix服务器(SPARC20)和3台Mac Power PC，这两台服务器将同时用作X终端和独立设备。该设备将提高该小组同时研究地球深层结构问题的能力，以及环境补救和区域构造(例如，板块重建和形变模拟)问题的地球物理数据的可视化、建模和反演。所有购买的设备将与现有设备完全兼容，并将有力地改善目前的计算和可视化能力。***

9506613 Cormier This grant provides $16,625 as partial support for an upgrade to the computing facilities of the geophysical research group at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. The University will provide an equal amount for the upgrade. The geophysics computing facility is the principal research facility for 2 geophysics faculty (Vernon Cormier and Roelof Versteeg) and their students working in the areas of deep Earth structure, seismic wave propagation, seismic processing and inversion and environmental geophysics.. The facility also serves geology faculty (Tim Byrne) as the main computational resource for modeling regional tectonics, and serves faculty and graduate students in general as the-computational platform for Mathematica. The PI, Cormier is one of the leading minds in theoretical seismology and the co-PI, Byrne is a leading expert in the tectonics of Japan. Specifically, the upgrade will consist of a central UNIX server (Sparc 20) with large memory and 3 Mac Power PC's, which will serve both as X-terminals and as standalone units. This equipment will improve this group's ability to conduct simultaneous research on problems in deep Earth structure, visualization, modeling and inversion of geophysical data for problems in environmental remediation and regional tectonics (e.g. plate reconstructions and deformation simulations). All purchased equipment will be completely compatible with existing equipment and will strongly improve the present computational and visualization capabilities. ***