DesCArtES: A Distributed Center for Advanced Electronics Simulation

9802596 ferya高级电子模拟分布式中心DesCArtES将建立，以解决未来几代纳米电子和光电子器件的预测物理模型和计算工具的需求。这些努力将集中在几个最优先的关键研究主题上，通过组建一个强大的合作团队，将四个领先的计算电子学学术团体联系起来：伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（作为领导机构）、斯坦福大学、普渡大学和亚利桑那州立大学。这些小组各有优势，同时又有充分的利益重叠和合作记录，因此可以有效地开展关于拟议主题的联合研究工作。研究主题包括：a)连续体和半经典器件仿真；b)光电仿真；c)纳米电子学的原子尺度过程建模；d)纳米器件中的量子输运。这个研究联盟的目标影响着非常大的计算规模上的应用。虽然大多数开发和测试可以在典型的工作站上进行，但实际计算，特别是3d计算，将需要大量使用多处理器超级计算机。笛卡尔将与许多工业实验室进行关键的互动，例如伊利诺伊州的国家超级计算应用中心（NCSA）、喷气推进实验室（JPL）和加利福尼亚州的美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心。通过与这些中心的密切关系，该联盟将获得研究工作所必需的高性能计算基础设施。与JPL和NASA的合作也强调了新的目标，并在许多方面补充了这种伙伴关系的工业合作中通常追求的目标。从各种各样的合作以及一些拟议研究的跨学科重点中，该中心将从计算电子学的新应用和重要应用中获得全面和创造性的视角，从而为成功地追求拟议的研究主题创造必要的环境

9802596FerryA Distributed Center for Advanced Electronics Simulation called DesCArtES will be established to address the needs of predictive physical models and computational tools for future generations of nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices. The efforts will focus on several key research themes of highest priority, through the formation of a strong collaborative team linking four of the leading academic groups in Computational Electronics: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (acting as lead institution), Stanford University, Purdue University and Arizona State University. These groups have each their own strengths, and at the same time sufficient overlap of interests and a track record of collaboration, so that joint research efforts on the proposed themes can be effectively pursued.The research themes include:a) Continuum and Semi-Classical Simulation of Devices;b) Optoelectronics Simulation;c) Atomic-Scale Process Modeling for Nanoelectronics;d) Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Devices.The goals of this research consortium impact applications on a very large computational scale. While most of the development and testing can be conducted on typical workstations, realistic calculations, particularly in 3-D, will require considerable use of multiprocessor supercomputers. DesCArtES will have key interactions with many industrial laboratories, e.g. the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA Ames Research Center in California. Through the close relationship with these centers, the consortium will gain access to the high performance computational infrastructure necessary for the research efforts proposed. The collaboration with JPL and NASA also emphasizes goals that are new and in many ways complementary to the goals usually pursued in the industrial collaborations of this partnership. From the variety of collaborations as well as the interdisciplinary emphasis of some of the proposed research, the center will derive a well-rounded and creative perspective of new and important applications in Computational Electronics, thus creating the necessary environment to pursue successfully the proposed research themes.***