Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of a CAVE and Shared-Memory Supercomputer

主要研究仪器：购买 CAVE 和共享内存超级计算机

• 批准号: 9724347
• 负责人: George Karniadakis
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9724347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Major; Research; Instrumentation; Acquisition; CAVE

Brown University has received a Major Research Instrumentation Award for the acquisition of a virtual reality display system (a CAVE), a graphics computer to provide synchronized output to the CAVE, and a large shared-memory computer interconnected to the graphics computer via a high speed link. This equipment will form the core of a shared research computing environment at Brown University. Connectivity to resources available at federally funded computing laboratories will be provided through vBNS connection at Brown. A large array of computer and computational science research projects drawn from computer science, chemistry, cognitive and linguistic sciences, geological sciences, mathematics, and physics will be utilizing the proposed equipment. The research projects range over scientific visualization conducted by the Brown Graphics Group in collaboration with the NSF Science and Technology Center for Graphics and Visualization, interactive graphics in computational fluid mechanics at the Center for Fluid Mechanics, geophysical research on earthquake mechanics using numerical modeling, and condensed matter physics. The equipment will be used by graduate students for research and by undergraduate students in over a dozen courses in at least six different science departments, as well for honors thesis projects. In addition, new course units and new interdisciplinary courses in topics such as computational science, neural networks, and medical imaging will be developed to take advantage of this powerful new facility. Ongoing work by undergraduates that could take advantage of this equipment include projects that span departments such as computational steering, scientific visualization, interaction techniques for immersive virtual reality, and the creation of immersive interactive teaching tools.

布朗大学获得了一项重大研究仪器奖，用于收购虚拟现实显示系统（CAVE），一台向CAVE提供同步输出的图形计算机，以及一台通过高速链路与图形计算机互连的大型共享内存计算机。 该设备将成为布朗大学共享研究计算环境的核心。 与联邦资助的计算实验室可用资源的连接将通过布朗的vBNS连接提供。 来自计算机科学、化学、认知和语言科学、地质科学、数学和物理学的大量计算机和计算科学研究项目将利用拟议的设备。 这些研究项目包括由布朗图形小组与NSF科学技术图形和可视化中心合作进行的科学可视化，流体力学中心计算流体力学中的交互式图形，使用数值建模对地震力学进行地球物理研究，以及凝聚态物理。 这些设备将被研究生用于研究，并被本科生用于至少六个不同科学系的十几门课程，以及荣誉论文项目。 此外，将开发计算科学，神经网络和医学成像等主题的新课程单元和新的跨学科课程，以利用这一强大的新设施。 可以利用这些设备的本科生正在进行的工作包括跨部门的项目，如计算转向，科学可视化，沉浸式虚拟现实的交互技术，以及沉浸式交互式教学工具的创建。