Acquisition of a Large Scale Cluster for Research in Computational Sciences and Engineering

收购用于计算科学和工程研究的大规模集群

• 批准号: 0321066
• 负责人: Srinidhi Varadarajan
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 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: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321066&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Large; Scale; Cluster; Research

This project, supporting various collaborative and integrated research projects in networking, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, wireless communication, molecular/cell biology, and molecular electronics, expands an existing 200-node cluster to an 800-node cluster at LASCA (VaTech Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications). The computational increase enables 8 projects: Advanced networking in massive parallel network emulation, Cell cycle modeling, Multidisciplinary design optimization, Microarray bioinformatics, Nanoscale molecular electronics, Quantum mechanical descriptions of molecular properties, Molecular modeling of proteins, Design and analysis of wideband wireless communication system.The cluster serves as the LASCA focal point for minority internship programs enabling team oriented multidisciplinary graduate education. Moreover, new courses in networking and high performance computing are under development.

该项目支持网络，生物信息学，计算化学，无线通信，分子/细胞生物学和分子电子学的各种合作和综合研究项目，将现有的200节点集群扩展到LASCA（VaTech高级科学计算和应用实验室）的800节点集群。计算量的增加使8个项目成为可能：大规模并行网络仿真中的高级网络，细胞周期建模，多学科设计优化，微阵列生物信息学，纳米级分子电子学，分子特性的量子力学描述，蛋白质的分子建模，宽带无线通信系统的设计与分析。该集群作为少数民族实习计划使能团队的LASCA联络点多学科研究生教育。此外，正在开发网络和高性能计算方面的新课程。