Acquisition of a PC Cluster for Geophysical Modeling

获取用于地球物理建模的 PC 集群

• 批准号: 0650957
• 负责人: Shijie Zhong
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0650957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; PC; Cluster; Geophysical; Modeling

0650957ZhongThis grant provides partial support for acquisition of a multi CPU PC cluster for geodynamic/seismological modeling by the geophysics group at the University of Colorado. The proposed PC-cluster will be used for a number of computationally intensive NSF/EAR funded projects including 1) Constraining thermochemical mantle convection using plume-related observations (Geodynamics), 2) Sublithospheric small-scale convection and lithospheric evolution (Geodynamics), 3) Formation of very long-wavelength structure in the mantle and its implications for supercontinent formation and breakup (Geodynamics), 4) Ambient noise tomography (Seismology), 5) Monte-Carlo inversion of seismic structure and surface wave tomography (Seismology), and 6) Forward modeling of seismic wave propagation. The PC cluster will help train graduate students and post-docs in the University of Colorado geophysics group in parallel computing and programming through research and teaching. The investigators are actively involved in the Computational Infrastructure for Geophysics (CIG) and newly developed and enhanced software packages will be made freely available the geophysics community through CIG.

0650957中这笔赠款为科罗拉多大学地球物理组购买用于地球动力学/地震学建模的多CPU PC集群提供部分支持。建议的PC集群将用于一些计算密集型NSF/ECONOMY资助的项目，包括1）使用羽流相关观测约束热化学地幔对流（地球动力学）; 2）岩石圈下小尺度对流与岩石圈演化（地球动力学），3）地幔甚长波长结构的形成及其对超大陆形成和裂解的意义（地球动力学），4）环境噪声层析成像（地震学），5）地震构造的蒙特-卡罗反演和表面波层析成像（地震学），以及6）地震波传播的正演模拟。 PC集群将通过研究和教学帮助科罗拉多大学物理组的研究生和博士后进行并行计算和编程方面的培训。 研究人员积极参与地球物理学计算基础设施（CIG），新开发和增强的软件包将通过CIG免费提供给地球物理学界。