MARINER: Metacenter-Affiliated Resources In the England Region

9523469随着HPCC技术，特别是并行计算和高性能网络的出现，随着NII的出现，社会上对了解这项技术并能够将其应用于教育、研究和商业各个领域的人的需求越来越大。现在比以往任何时候都更重要的是找到有效的手段，将国家范围内的努力与区域和地方努力联系起来，以便扩大社会各阶层获得和参与气候变化框架公约的机会。波士顿大学的Mariner(新英格兰地区的Metacenter附属资源)项目将作为HPCC/NII在新英格兰地区相关活动的焦点。它将成为广泛传播技术的催化剂，并成为通往元中心的渠道。Mariner将利用大学先进的计算和通信设施，并利用其在计算机科学、计算科学可扩展的并行计算和广域网络方面的经验，向广泛的受众提供教育和培训，并接触到该地区迄今为止尚未加入HPCC/NII社区的机构。Mariner的主要内容包括：培训、教育和研究规划、外展计划和活动，以及使用波士顿大学的设施。

9523469 Rebbi As HPCC technologies, especially parallel computing and high performance networking, become available to much wider segments of the community through the emergence of the NII, there is an increased need for people who understand this technology and are capable of applying it in all sectors of education's, research and business. It is more important than ever to find effective means to link efforts on a national scale to regional and local efforts in order to expand access to and involvement in HPCC for broad sectors of society. The MARINER (Metacenter-Affiliated Resource In the New England Region) project by Boston University will serve as a focal point for HPCC/NII related activities in the New England area. It will act as a catalyst for wide diffusion of technologies and as a channel to the Metacenter. Mariner will draw on the University's advanced computing and communications facilities and build on its experience in computer science, computational science scaleable parallel computing and wide area networking to provide education and tra ining to a wide audience and reach out to institutions within the area that have hitherto not been part of the HPCC/NII community. Key elements of MARINER are: training, education and research programming, outreach programs and activities, and access to facilities at boston University.