Upgrade of the Geophysics Computing Facility at the University of Connecticut

这笔拨款为康涅狄格大学斯托尔斯分校地球物理研究小组的计算设施升级提供了16,625美元的部分支持。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学院（Vernon Cormier和Roelof Versteeg）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的主要研究设施。该设施还为地质学院（Tim Byrne）提供区域构造建模的主要计算资源，并为教师和研究生提供一般的Mathematica计算平台。科米尔是理论地震学的领军人物之一，伯恩是日本构造学的领军专家。具体来说，升级将包括一个具有大内存的中央UNIX服务器（Sparc 20）和3台Mac Power PC，它们既可以作为x终端，也可以作为独立单元。该设备将提高本课题组同时研究深部地球结构问题、环境修复和区域构造问题（如板块重建和变形模拟）的地球物理数据可视化、建模和反演的能力。所有购买的设备将与现有设备完全兼容，并将有力地提高现有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. ***