MRI: Parallel Computing Environment for Computational Mathematics

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Proposal Numer DMS-0215942 PIs: St. John, Baumslag, Cleary, and Rouson.ABSTRACTThis project is a collaborative effort among members of several Departments and multiple institutions, all parts of the City University of New York (CUNY). The group effort includes the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Computer Science,and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City College ofCUNY; the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, LehmanCollege of CUNY, the Department of Computer Science of theGraduate Center of CUNY, and the Department of Mathematics ofthe Graduate Center of CUNY. The research tool that serves asthe hub for the planned activity is a large Beowulf computationalcluster, to be housed at City College.The planned research projects are genetic algorithms incombinatorial group theory, evolutionary tree reconstruction incomputational biology, computer experiments on parafree groups,modelling turbulent fluid flows arising in the early stages ofcombustion, and questions and simulations in computer networking.The cluster will be administered under the Center for Algorithmsand Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS) at City College. Thiscluster will also provide an important resource for theundergraduate and graduate students of CUNY, by giving accessto computing power not usually found at primarily undergraduatecolleges. The research topics span a wide range of computer science, computational science, and mathematics. They share the common approach of involving both experiments and theory, relying on exploitation of computational resources.