Upgrade of Departmental Computer System

小行星9632364 这笔赠款提供了91 581美元，作为购买硬件和软件费用的一半支持，以升级莱斯大学地质和地球物理系的计算机系统，用于地球物理研究，包括全球板块运动建模，处理和分析地震反射和折射数据以及分析古地磁数据。 具体设备将包括4个高端Ultrasparc 1工作站，配有扩展内存和磁盘存储器，4个低端Sparc 5工作站，1台Macintosh Power PC绘图计算机，Western Omega的三维地震处理软件和其他外围设备。 这一系统将使NUVEL-1全球板块运动模型得以继续发展，该模型需要对海洋地球物理和地震数据进行广泛的分析和反演，同时分析甚长基线干涉测量数据。 该模型的继续发展和完善将引起世界范围内对活跃构造过程感兴趣的地球科学界的极大兴趣。 更多的研究将;利用这一分布式计算机网络进行的地震调查将包括对板块边缘和山区带的结构和构造进行地震调查，包括圣安德烈亚斯系统、盆地和山脉省、门多西诺三重接合点和阿拉斯加的布鲁克斯山脉，以及大陆岩石圈断裂的地球动力学模拟。 ***

9632364 Gordon This grant provides $91,581 as one-half support of the costs of acquiring hardware and software to upgrade Rice University's Department of Geology and Geophysics computer system used for geophysical research including global plate motion modeling, processing and analyzing seismic reflection and refraction data and analyses of paleomagnetic data. Specific equipment will include 4 high-end Ultrasparc1 workstations with expanded memory and disk storage, 4 lower end Sparc5 workstations, 1 Macintosh Power PC computer for graphics, Western Omega's 3-D seismic processing software and additional peripherals. This system will allow continued development of the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model which requires extensive analyses and inversion of marine geophysical and seismological data together with analyses of very- long baseline interferometery (VLBI)data. The continued development and refinement of this model will be os significant worldwide interest to the geoscientific community with interests in active tectonic processes. Additional research that will; be conducted using this distributed network of computers will include seismic investigation of the structure and tectonics of plate margins and mountain belts including the San Andreas system, the Basin and Range Province, the Mendocino Triple Junction and the Brooks Range of Alaska and geodynamic modeling of the rifting of continental lithosphere. ***