Acquisition of a Parallel Processing Facility for Astrophysics

AST-0216105 Draine，布鲁斯T.首席研究员和他的团队将创建一个强大的并行处理设施，用于天体物理学问题的研究，不需要“共享内存”或超快的处理器间通信。 研究将包括：不规则星际颗粒的光散射，宇宙结构的形成，气态原行星吸积盘的动力学演化，以及其他几个引人注目的天文科学研究课题。 该系统将包含96个双CPU“从属”系统，共有192个中央处理器，192千兆字节RAM和3.8 TB磁盘。***

AST-0216105Draine, Bruce T.The Principal Investigator and his team will create a powerful parallel-processing facility for research in astrophysics on problems, which do not require "shared memory" or ultra-fast inter-processor communication. Studies will include: Light scattering from irregular interstellar grains, cosmological structure formation, dynamical evolution of gaseous protoplanetary accretion disks, and several other compelling astronomical sciences research topics. The system will contain 96 dual CPU "slave" systems with a total of 192 Central Processing Units, and 192 gigabytes of RAM with a 3.8 TB disk. ***