Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Distributed High-Performance Computing Environment for Research in Science and Engineering

9601797 Shephard，Mark Flaherty，Joseph Rennselaer理工学院学术研究基础设施：为科学和工程研究开发分布式高性能计算环境这个学术研究基础设施奖支持购买高速网络和高速计算工作站，以建立高性能的分布式计算环境。该设备支持的研究项目包括：1.开发用于科学计算的分布式并行处理技术。2.应用分布式并行计算支持材料加工、多尺度失效分析和多相流领域的研究。3.虚拟现实技术的发展和应用，以考察大规模仿真的结果，并交互地引导仿真。4.研究、开发和评估学生移动计算，以提供随时随地的教学。5.研究和开发先进网络，并开发一个以ATM为基础的网络，以支持该方案的所有方面。

9601797 Shephard, Mark Flaherty, Joseph Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Distributed High-Performance Computing Environment for Research in Science and Engineering This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the acquisition of a high speed network and high speed computational workstations to build a high performance distributed computing environment. The research projects supported by the equipment include: 1. Development of distributed parallel processing techniques for scientific computations. 2. Application of distributed parallel computing to support research in the areas of material processing, multiscale failure analysis, and multiphase flows. 3. Development and application of virtual reality techniques to investigate the results of large scale simulations and to interactively steer the simulations. 4. Research , development, and evaluation of student mobile computing for delivery of anywhere, anytime instruction. 5. Research and development in advanced networking, and the development of an ATM-based network to support all facets of this program.