Development of Computer Cluster for the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

麻省理工学院经济系计算机集群开发

• 批准号: 9512139
• 负责人: Whitney Newey
• 金额: $ 15.02万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 1995-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Computer; Cluster; Department; Economics

With partial support from the National Science Foundation, the MIT Economics Department Computer Cluster will upgrade its computing facility. As a result of an explosion in the role of computation in economic research, the Department has reached the limits of existing hardware. To alleviate this situation, it will undertake a three part program to upgrade its current instrumentation. This includes: the purchase of a substantially upgraded departmental workstation and fileserver; the upgrading of PC facilities and increased connectivity of PCs in graduate student offices; purchase of an IBM RS/6000 workstation, a dedicated file server, and 10 gigabytes of additional disc space. Three groups of faculty members and their affiliated graduate students will be the primary beneficiaries of this upgrade. Many of these researchers are working on data-intensive empirical micro- and macro-economics questions; others employ simulation methods to solve problems in economic theory while a third group is engaged in developing new econometric tools. The expanded facilities will also benefit numbers of both graduate and undergraduate students and serve to further teaching as well as research.

在国家科学基金会的部分支持下，麻省理工学院经济系计算机集群将升级其计算设施。由于计算在经济研究中的作用爆炸，该部门已经达到了现有硬件的极限。为了缓解这种情况，它将进行一个由三部分组成的方案，以升级其目前的仪器。这包括：购置了一台大幅升级的系内工作站和文件服务器;升级了研究生办公室的个人电脑设施，并增加了个人电脑的连通性;购置了一台IBM RS/6000工作站、一台专用文件服务器和10千兆字节的额外磁盘空间。 三组教师及其附属研究生将是这次升级的主要受益者。这些研究人员中的许多人正在研究数据密集型的实证微观和宏观经济学问题;其他人采用模拟方法来解决经济理论中的问题，而第三组则致力于开发新的计量经济学工具。扩建后的设施也将使研究生和本科生受益，并有助于进一步的教学和研究。