Acquisition of High Performance Computers for the Northeastern Undergraduate Research Chemistry Consortium

在主要研究仪器（MRI）计划的支持下，美国东北部的一个大学联盟将购买一套高端计算机。 来自汉密尔顿、高露洁、瓦萨、圣十字、圣劳伦斯、康涅狄格、霍巴特和威廉史密斯学院的教师将分享设备，开展环境科学、生物化学、材料化学和生物无机化学的研究。 该财团将为每个机构购买两台工作站，一台32处理器的超级计算机将设在汉密尔顿学院。 这些设备将使这些机构能够在物理化学课程中建立新的教学实验室，并将为这些主要是本科院校的学生研究人员提供实践培训。 一组快速、现代化的计算机工作站对于满足活跃的研究部门的计算需求至关重要。这样的“计算机网络”也可以作为新的理论代码和算法的开发环境，提供尖端的图形和可视化设施，并支持并行处理的最先进应用的研究。 这些研究将在生物化学和材料科学等许多领域产生重大影响。

With support from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, a consortium of universities in the northeastern United States will acquire a suite of high-end computers. Faculty members from Hamilton, Colgate, Vassar, Holy Cross, St. Lawrence, Connecticut, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges will share the equipment to carry out research in environmental sciences, biochemistry, materials chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry. The consortium will purchse two workstations for each institution and a 32 processor supercomputer will be located at Hamilton College. This equipment will enable new teaching laboratories in the physical chemistry courses at these institutions and will provide hands-on training for student researchers at these primarily undergraduate institutions. A cluster of fast, modern computer workstations is vital to serving the computing needs of active research departments. Such a "computer network" also serves as a development environment for new theoretical codes and algorithms, provides cutting-edge graphics and visualization facilities, and supports research in state-of-the-art applications of parallel processing. These studies will have a significant impact in a number of areas, including biochemistry and materials sciences.