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

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等领域的各种协作和综合研究项目，将LASCA(VaTech先进科学计算和应用实验室)现有的200个节点的集群扩展到800个节点的集群。计算量的增加使8个项目得以实现：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、纳米分子电子学、分子性质的量子力学描述、蛋白质的分子建模、宽带无线通信系统的设计和分析。此外，有关网络和高性能计算的新课程正在开发中。

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.