Acquisition of Parallel Computing Cluster for Large-Scale Computational Problems in the Mathematical Sciences

数学科学中大规模计算问题的并行计算集群的获取研究人员将构建一个64处理器的并行计算集群。这台机器的计算能力将被应用于解决计算数学中最重要的问题。这项研究将在许多重要领域得到应用，包括：通信网络的可靠性和安全性、密码学、运输和物流、医疗管理以及制造系统的设计和操作。这些项目都需要高精度的大规模并行计算，或者在每个处理节点上使用非常大的内存空间。这个集群将使以前不切实际或不可能的计算成为可能。研究人员将让本科生和研究生参与并行算法的开发和实现，这些并行算法与他们在统计学、运筹学、数论、组合学、编码理论和数值分析方面的研究有关。通过克莱姆森大学数学科学系的本科生研究经验项目，他们将在这些技术方面培养一些未来最优秀、最聪明的年轻数学家。因此，这个项目将在数学科学的并行计算方面培养新一代的研究人员。

Acquisition of Parallel Computing Cluster forLarge-Scale Computational Probelms in theMathematical SciencesThe investigators will construct a 64-processor parallel computing clus-ter. The computational power of this machine will be applied to solve prob-lems that rank among the most important in computational mathematics.This research will have applications in a variety of important areas, in-cluding: reliability and security of communication networks, cryptography,transportation and logistics, management of medical treatments, and man-ufacturing systems design and operation. Each of these projects requiresmassively parallel computations with high precision or a very large memoryspace on each processing node. This cluster will make possible computationsthat were previously impractical or impossible.The investigators will involve undergraduate and graduate students inthe development and implementation of parallel algorithms related to theirresearch in statistics, operations research, number theory, combinatorics,coding theory and numerical analysis. Through the Research Experience forUndergraduates program in Clemson's Mathematical Sciences Department,they will be training some of the best and brightest young mathematiciansof the future in these techniques. Thus this project will have the effectof training a new generation of researchers in parallel computation in themathematical sciences.