Upgrading of Geophysics Communal Computer Laboratory

0236455Brodsky这笔赠款的资金将用于支持加州大学洛杉矶分校地球空间科学系的公共地球物理学计算机设施的升级。 目前的计算设施是基于一个老化的（1997年）Solaris环境，由Sun Ultra和Solaris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工作站将扩大这个网络，并将为11名教师和他们的学生服务。 额外的2 TB RAID系统将为分析大量地震数据增加大量额外的存储容量。 联合国大学将提供资金，购买部分新设备，并将地质学大楼的以太网连接升级到1吉比特容量。 这笔赠款的一部分还将在安装阶段为一名计算机系统管理员的薪金提供有限的支助。 这一升级后的设施不仅将服务于首席PI，艾米丽布罗德斯基，她的爆炸喷发动力学理论模型的启动需求，但也包括约翰维达尔，大卫杰克逊，海蒂休斯顿，保罗戴维斯和约翰奥诺，仅举几例许多其他活跃的教职员工的需求。 这一计算设施提高的计算速度和存储能力将促进地震学、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开发基础设施，以及促进与社会相关的地震减灾工作。

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.***