Acquisition of a New Geophysics Computer System

这笔赠款支持购买新的计算设备，以升级华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校的地球物理研究计划可用的设施。将购买的具体设备包括三台Sun Fire 280r服务器、三台Sun Blade 1000双处理器工作站、两个DLT-800磁带机、一台彩色打印机和一个XIOTECH AMERATION SAN 612 GB磁盘阵列。这个群体中的2名教员和6名博士研究科学家/博士后科学家目前进行的大部分研究要么是计算密集型的，要么是存储密集型的。合成地震图、层析成像反转和地磁场变化的反转需要超过当前机器的处理器速度。华盛顿大学目前还参与了四个IRIS PASSCAL地震仪的部署，这将涉及处理和分析大约700 GB的地震数据。获得快速可靠的机器系统将使该计划能够以最佳和高效的方式开展研究。*

0207737WiensThis grant supports the acquisition of new computational equipment to upgrade the facility available to the terrestrial geophysics research program at Washington University - St. Louis. Specific equipment to be purchased will include three Sun Fire 280R servers, three Sun Blade 1000 2-processor workstations, 2 DLT-800 tape drives, a color printer, and a Xiotech Magnitude SAN 612 Gb disk array. Much of the current research conducted by the 2 faculty members and 6 Ph.D. research scientists/post-doctoral scientists in this group has become either computationally intensive or storage intensive. Synthetic seismograms, tomographic inversions, and inversions for geomagnetic field variations require processor speeds that exceed current machines. Washington University is also currently involved with four IRIS PASSCAL seismometer deployments which will involve the processing and analysis of about 700 Gb of seismic data. Obtaining a system of fast and reliable machines will allow this program to carry out research in an optimal and productive manner.***