Acquisition of Beowulf Cluster for a Center for Computational Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz

为加州大学圣克鲁斯分校计算天体物理中心收购 Beowulf 集群

• 批准号: 0521566
• 负责人: Stanford Woosley
• 金额: $ 110万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0521566&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Beowulf; Cluster; Center; Computational

AST-0521566/Woosley, UCSCThis project will provide the necessary supercomputing resources to study roughly a dozen grand-challenge problems in astrophysics, planetary science, and telescope instrument design at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Principal users would include approximately 25 graduate students and postdocs. The equipment proposed is a 280-node Beowulf Linux cluster having two AMD 246 64 bit processors per node. Each node will also have 4 Gbytes of memory and the overall machine will be served by 20 TB of disk storage in a fast RAID system. A variety of highly parallelized, production-ready codes will be fielded on this system to simulate cosmology, structure formation, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, magnetohydrodynamics, planetary formation and structure, planetesimal collisions, and adaptive optics.

该项目将为加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（UCSC）研究天体物理学、行星科学和望远镜仪器设计等十几个重大挑战问题提供必要的超级计算资源。主要用户将包括大约25名研究生和博士后。提议的设备是一个280个节点的Beowulf Linux集群，每个节点有两个AMD 246 64位处理器。每个节点也将有4gb的内存，整个机器将由一个快速RAID系统中的20tb磁盘存储提供服务。各种高度并行的、生产就绪的代码将在该系统上进行模拟宇宙学、结构形成、超新星、伽马射线爆发、磁流体动力学、行星形成和结构、星子碰撞和自适应光学。