Upgrading of Geophysics Communal Computer Laboratory

地球物理公用计算机实验室升级改造

• 批准号: 0236455
• 负责人: Emily Brodsky
• 金额: $ 7.35万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrading; Geophysics; Communal; Computer; Laboratory

0236455BrodskyFunds from this grant will support an upgrade to a communal geophysics computer facility in the Department of Earth & Space Sciences at UCLA. The current computing facility is based on an aging (vintage 1997) Solaris environment consisting of Sun Ultra and SPARC workstations. A new multi-CPU SunBlade server, five SunBlade workstations and five PC workstations running Linux will augment this network and will serve eleven faculty members and their students. An additional 2 TB RAID system will add significant additional storage capacity for analysis of massive seismic data holdings. The University will provide funding for both a portion of the new equipment and also for an upgrade of the Ethernet connection in the Geology building to 1 Gbit capacity. A portion of this grant will also provide limited support for the salary of a computer systems administrator during the installation phase. This upgraded facility will serve not only the startup needs of the lead PI, Emily Brodsky, for her theoretical models of explosive eruption dynamics, but also the needs of many other active faculty members including John Vidale, David Jackson, Heidi Houston , Paul Davis and John Aurnou, to name a few. The increased computational speed and storage capacity of this compute facility will foster leading research in earthquake seismology, seismic tomography and geodynamics. The proposal's broader impacts include both infrastructure development for multiple researchers and their students and the promotion of societally relevant earthquake mitigation efforts.***

这笔资金将用于升级加州大学洛杉矶分校地球与空间科学系的公共地球物理计算机设施。目前的计算设施是基于老旧(1997年)的Solaris环境，由Sun Ultra和SPARC工作站组成。一个新的多CPU SunBlade服务器、五个SunBlade工作站和五个运行Linux的PC工作站将增强这个网络，并将为11名教职员工和他们的学生提供服务。额外的2 TB RAID系统将为分析海量地震数据提供显著的额外存储容量。该大学将为新设备的一部分提供资金，并将地质大楼的以太网连接升级到1千兆位容量。这笔赠款的一部分还将在安装阶段为计算机系统管理员的工资提供有限的支助。这一升级后的设施不仅将满足首席PI Emily Brodsky对她的爆炸动力学理论模型的创业需求，还将满足许多其他活跃教职员工的需求，其中包括John Vidale、David Jackson、Heidi Houston、Paul Davis和John Aurnou等。这一计算设施的计算速度和存储能力的提高将促进地震地震学、地震层析成像和地球动力学方面的领先研究。该提案的更广泛影响包括为多名研究人员及其学生发展基础设施，以及促进具有社会意义的地震减灾努力。