Acquisition and Development of a New Computing Environment for the Department of Economics

经济系新计算环境的获取和开发

• 批准号: 9871313
• 负责人: Hidehiko Ichimura
• 金额: $ 28.81万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9871313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Development; New; Computing; Environment

With National Science Foundation support Drs. Hidehiko Ichimura, John Kagel and Jean-Francois Richard will acquire instrumentation to upgrade the antiquated computer facilities at the department of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. This award will permit both acquisition and development of the new, more efficient system. The department will acquire a state of the art multi-CPU server, will upgrade the graduate student PC laboratory and finally upgrade the department's experimental laboratory. To use the system more effectively, the group will develop a scheduling process. They will adopt and modify an off the shelf queuing system to schedule workloads in a way that batch jobs can be executed on idle machines even during times at which the laboratory is dedicated to data gathering. To accomplish this each computer must work in a uniform environment and the researchers will develop an integrated system to achieve this goal. They will make the result available in an effective drop-in package form which can be widely distributed. The upgraded laboratory will be immediately useful to pursue a variety of research goals. Three projects relate to major numerical developments whose importance transcend economics: high-dimensional numerical integration, nonparametric methods and simulation techniques. Another deals with the statistical analysis of dynamic nonlinear macroeconomic models. Three applied projects address fundamental current socio-economic policy issues: job training programs, health-care reforms and mortgage lending patterns. The laboratories will be extensively used by students and thus serve an important educational as well as research function.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，市村英彦博士、约翰·卡格尔博士和让·弗朗索瓦·理查德博士将获得仪器，以升级匹兹堡大学经济系陈旧的计算机设施。该合同将允许采购和开发新的、更有效的系统。该系将购置一台最先进的多CPU服务器，将升级研究生PC实验室，并最终升级该系的实验实验室。为了更有效地使用该系统，该小组将制定一个时间安排程序。他们将采用和修改现成的排队系统，以调度工作量的方式，批处理作业可以在空闲的机器上执行，即使在实验室致力于数据收集的时间。为了实现这一目标，每台计算机必须在统一的环境中工作，研究人员将开发一个集成系统来实现这一目标。他们将以一种有效的、可广泛分发的一揽子形式提供结果。 升级后的实验室将立即用于追求各种研究目标。三个项目涉及的主要数值发展，其重要性超越经济学：高维数值积分，非参数方法和模拟技术。另一个涉及动态非线性宏观经济模型的统计分析。三个应用项目解决当前基本的社会经济政策问题：就业培训计划，医疗改革和抵押贷款模式。这些实验室将被学生广泛使用，从而发挥重要的教育和研究功能。