Upgrading of the Computer Equipment at the Geophysical Computing Laboratory, UC-Berkeley

这笔拨款支持加州大学伯克利分校地球物理计算机实验室（GCL）的计算设施升级。GCL支持伯克利地震实验室（BSL）的研究人员以及地球和行星科学系的教职员工和学生。支持将用于购买：磁带备份库、多个单CPU桌面工作站和专用于计算的多CPU服务器。计算升级将支持一系列NSF资助的研究，包括：全球地震层析成像；岩石圈结构与地震物理的地震研究地幔对流地球动力学模拟；火山岩浆物理性质和喷发过程的模拟；景观演化模型；以及全球气候系统建模。该设备将在未来五年内支持超过5名教师和大约30名研究生和10名本科生的研究。震源建模、气候系统动力学和物理火山过程的研究项目对减轻灾害和提高对全球气候变化可能情景的理解具有重要意义。

This grant supports upgrade of the computing facilities in the Geophysical Computer Laboratory (GCL) at UC-Berkeley. The GCL supports researchers affiliated with the Berkeley Seismological Lab (BSL) and faculty and students in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Support will be used to purchase: tape backup libraries, multiple single CPU desktop workstations and multi-CPU servers dedicated for computation. The computational upgrade will support a range of NSF funded research including: global seismic tomography; seismic studies of lithospheric structure and earthquake physics; geodynamical modeling of mantle convection; modeling of the physical properties of volcanic magmas and eruptive processes; modeling of landscape evolution; and global climate system modeling. The equipment will support the research of over 5 faculty and approximately 30 graduate and 10 undergraduate students over the next five years. Research programs in earthquake source modeling, climate system dynamics and physical volcanological processes have implications for hazards mitigation and improved understanding of possible scenarios surrounding global climate change.