Acquisition of a High Performance Computer System for the Center for Computational Geophysics

计算地球物理中心购置高性能计算机系统

• 批准号: 9977697
• 负责人: William Symes
• 金额: $ 28.01万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-01-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9977697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Performance; Computer; System; Center

9977697SymesThis grant, made through the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, provides partial support of the costs of acquiring a high performance computer system for the Center for Computational Geophysics (CCG), Rice University. The CCG will obtain a multi-CPU, shared memory, parallel architecture server which will be used in a variety of computer intensive geophysical research programs including 3-D reflection and refraction exploration seismology and geodynamic modeling. A number of faculty members will make use this state-of-the-art computational platform. William Symes (applied mathematician), Alan Levander (seismologist) and Richard Baraniuk (signal processing electrical engineer) will largely be involved in development of improved computational algorithms for inversion of large 3-D seismic data sets and their interpretation. Additional faculty members and researchers including Richard Gordon, Adrian Lenardic, Julia Morgan and Dale Sawyer will make use of the system for modeling geodynamic processes. Specific geoscience applications include improvements to the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model, tomographic imaging of the roots of the Rocky Mountains, profiling continental margin sedimentation and structure, modeling the physics of landslides, and simulating the geodynamics of continental rifting, seafloor spreading, mantle convection and plate motions. ***

9977697 SYMS通过重大研究仪器(MRI)计划提供的这笔赠款，为赖斯大学计算地球物理中心(CCG)购买高性能计算机系统的成本提供了部分支持。CCG将获得一个多CPU、共享内存、并行架构的服务器，该服务器将用于各种计算机密集型地球物理研究程序，包括三维反射和折射勘探、地震学和地球动力学建模。许多教职员工将使用这个最先进的计算平台。William Symes(应用数学家)、Alan Levander(地震学家)和Richard Baraniuk(信号处理电气工程师)将主要参与大型三维地震数据集及其解释的改进计算算法的开发。包括理查德·戈登、禤浩焯·勒纳迪克、朱莉娅·摩根和戴尔·索耶在内的其他教职员工和研究人员将利用该系统对地球动力学过程进行建模。具体的地球科学应用包括对NUVEL-1全球板块运动模型的改进，落基山脉根部的层析成像，描述大陆边缘沉积和结构，模拟滑坡的物理学，并模拟大陆裂谷、海底扩张、地幔对流和板块运动的地球动力学。***