Upgrade of the Geophysics Computing Facility at the University of Connecticut

小行星9506613 这笔赠款提供了16 625美元，作为对斯托尔斯康涅狄格大学地球物理研究小组计算机设施升级的部分支助。 大学将提供同等数额的升级费用。 地球物理学计算设施是两个地球物理学系（弗农科斯特勒和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学领域工作的主要研究设施。该设施还为地质学教师（Tim Byrne）提供服务，作为区域构造建模的主要计算资源，并为教师和研究生提供Mathematica的计算平台。 PI，Cordini是理论地震学的主要思想之一，而共同PI，Byrne是日本大地构造学的主要专家。 具体来说，升级将包括一个中央UNIX服务器（Sparc 20）与大内存和3个Mac Power PC，这将作为X终端和作为独立的单位。这些设备将提高该小组同时研究地球深部结构问题、环境补救和区域构造问题的地球物理数据的可视化、建模和反演（例如板块重建和变形模拟）的能力。 所有购买的设备将与现有设备完全兼容，并将大大提高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. ***