Acquisition of a High Performance Central Computing Facility at UCSB

在主要研究仪器（MRI）项目的支持下，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的化学和生物化学系将获得一个贝奥武夫集群。该设备将加强许多领域的研究，包括a)生物材料微观结构的模拟；B)单分子光谱实验模拟与解释；C)聚合物和复杂流体的场理论计算机模拟；d)多相复杂流体流固相互作用的建模与计算。一组快速、现代化的计算机工作站对于满足活跃的研究部门的计算需求至关重要。这样的“计算机网络”还可以作为新的理论代码和算法的开发环境，提供最先进的图形和可视化设施，并支持最先进的并行处理应用的研究。这些研究将对包括材料科学和物理学在内的许多领域产生重大影响。

With support from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California in Santa Barbara will acquire a Beowulf cluster. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including a) simulation of biomaterial microstructures; b) simulation and interpretation of single molecule spectroscopy experiments; c) field-theoretic computer simulations of polymers and complex fluids; and d) modeling and computation of flow-structure interaction in multi-phase and complex fluids. A cluster of fast, modern computer workstations is vital to serving the computing needs of active research departments. Such a "computer network" also serves as a development environment for new theoretical codes and algorithms, provides state-of-the-art graphics and visualization facilities, and supports research in state-of-the-art applications of parallel processing. These studies will have a significant impact in a wide number of areas, including materials science and physics.