MRI: Interdisciplinary Cluster Computing at a Liberal Arts College

MRI：文学院的跨学科集群计算

• 批准号: 0521169
• 负责人: Scott Kaplan
• 金额: $ 29.88万
• 依托单位: Amherst College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0521169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Interdisciplinary; Cluster; Computing; Liberal

This project, setting up a computer cluster for research that requires substantial computational processing and data storage, enables the following research:-Integration of buffer cache policies;-Insights into lattice quantum field theories; -Fossil visualization; and a-Computational model for dispersion of mercury.The first combines strategies for managing main memory within computer systems simulating the many ways in which these strategies can be combined, determining the effect each has on the other, and ultimately developing a unified main memory manager for operating system kernels. The second applies computational intensive methods to gain insights into lattice quantum field theories. Using Monte Carlo simulation, this project seeks an understanding of the basic physics (e.g., the phase structure) of these models. The models will be used as a laboratory for studying improved actions and algorithms. The third attempts to improve the delays that occur in the process of converting attenuation projections into slice images when using X-radiographic computed tomography to visualize fossils embedded in rock. The last develops a computational model for dispersion of mercury from a nearby coal-fired power plant. The computational capabilities permit exploring the full 40-year historical data record, thus allowing testing and refinement of the local atmospheric chemistry and transport model. Additional faculty from other areas will use the facility to expand the depth and breadth of existing research projects and new lines of investigation requiring massive computational power. The Five College Consortium (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire, and U Mass) will share the infrastructure.Broader Impact: This infrastructure promotes multidisciplinary and inter-institutional research. The cluster will be used for honor theses and summer research. Hence, the computer cluster increases the opportunity for students, including many female and minority students, to engage in research. Many of the undergraduates being serviced should continue unto graduate school.

该项目为需要大量计算处理和数据存储的研究建立计算机集群，使以下研究成为可能：-缓冲区高速缓存策略的集成；-对晶格量子场理论的洞察；-化石可视化；以及-汞分散的计算模型。第一个结合用于管理计算机系统内的主存储器的策略，模拟这些策略可以组合的许多方式，确定每个策略对彼此的影响，并最终为操作系统内核开发统一的主存储器管理器。第二种是应用计算密集的方法来获得对晶格量子场理论的见解。利用蒙特卡罗模拟，这个项目寻求对这些模型的基本物理(例如，相结构)的理解。这些模型将被用作研究改进的动作和算法的实验室。第三项研究试图改善在使用X射线计算机断层照相术显示嵌在岩石中的化石时，将衰减投影转换为切片图像的过程中出现的延迟。后者开发了一个计算模型，用于计算附近一家燃煤电厂的汞扩散。计算能力允许探索完整的40年历史数据记录，从而允许测试和改进当地的大气化学和传输模型。来自其他领域的更多教员将使用该设施来扩展现有研究项目的深度和广度，以及需要大量计算能力的新的调查路线。五所大学联盟(阿默斯特大学、芒特霍利奥克大学、史密斯大学、汉普郡大学和马萨诸塞州大学)将共享基础设施。广泛的影响：该基础设施促进多学科和跨机构的研究。该集群将用于荣誉论文和夏季研究。因此，计算机集群增加了学生，包括许多女性和少数族裔学生从事研究的机会。许多接受服务的本科生应该继续读研究生。