Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for Solar-Terrestrial Research

这个主要研究仪器奖是为了收购一个高性能计算集群，以促进在新罕布什尔州的地球，海洋和空间研究所（EOS）的日地物理学研究。 计算设备将支持与地球空间环境建模方案和国家空间气象方案有关的研究。 这些计划的主要挑战是模拟太阳日冕物质抛射的能量流，通过太阳风，穿过地球的磁层和电离层，最终导致大气加热，电流和极地地区的极光显示。 拟议的设施将包括一个高性能的计算引擎，数据存储和归档硬件。 目标是开发一个用户友好的设施，免费提供给参与研究小组的高级科学家，博士后和研究生。 该设施将加强对日地环境进行模拟和建模的努力，为分析来自多个实验方案的大量数据集提供便利，并通过提供一个生成具有高统计数据的仪器模拟平台来帮助表征现有和正在开发的仪器。

This Major Research Instrumentation award is for the acquisition of a high performance computing cluster to facilitate the study of solar-terrestrial physics at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS). The computing equipment will support studies related to the Geospace Environment Modeling program and the National Space Weather Program. The primary challenge of these programs is to model the flow of energy from coronal mass ejections on the sun via the solar wind, through Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, ultimately resulting in atmospheric heating, electrical currents, and auroral displays over the polar regions. The proposed facility will consist of a high-performance compute engine, data storage, and archiving hardware. The goal is to develop a user-friendly facility freely available to senior scientists, postdocs, and graduates students within the participating research groups. The facility will enhance efforts to simulate and model the solar terrestrial environment, facility the analysis of large volume data sets from multiple experimental programs, and aid the characterization of existing and developing instrumentation by providing a platform for generating instrument simulations with high statistics.