Upgrading the Earthquake Seismology Computing Facility at Penn State

0447173阿曼这笔赠款支持宾夕法尼亚州立大学地震计算设施的升级。此次升级将需要购买一台Apple Macintosh XServe文件服务器，四台Macintosh双2.5 GHz G5 CPU工作站，每台工作站都有1 GB RAM，一个线性磁带机备份系统，以及一个1.75 TB的Apple XServe海量存储。此次升级将促进从老化的Sun文件服务器/工作站网络过渡到基于Apple MAC OS X的计算环境，这将极大地简化系统管理任务，并将PI的Ammon、Richardson、NyBlade和他们的学生目前可用的计算能力增加近四倍。将立即受到这次升级影响的计算机密集研究包括对西非和南极东西边界之下地壳和上地幔的地震结构的研究、面波反演、采矿引起的地震活动、地震重新定位和核爆炸监测的研究。

0447173AmmonThis grant supports upgrade of the Penn State Seismological Computing Facility. The upgrade will entail purchase of an Apple Macintosh Xserve file server, four Macintosh dual 2.5 GHz G5 CPU workstations, each with 1 GB RAM, a linear tape drive backup system, and a 1.75 Tb RAID Apple Xserve mass store. The upgrade will foster a transition from an aging Sun file server/workstation network to an Apple MAC OS X based compute environment that will greatly simplify system administration tasks and increase by a factor of nearly four the compute power currently available to PI's Ammon, Richardson, Nyblade, and their students. Compute intensive research that will immediately be impacted by this upgrade include studies of the seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath West Africa and the East-West Antarctic boundary, surface wave inversions, studies of mining induced seismicity, earthquake relocations, and nuclear explosion monitoring.***