A High-Performance Computating Facility for Extragalactic Research

用于河外研究的高性能计算设施

• 批准号: 0705160
• 负责人: Martin Weinberg
• 金额: $ 47.8万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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: 2007-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0705160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Performance; Computating; Facility; Extragalactic; Research

The project involves the assembly of a high-performance Beowulf-class supercomputer to provide over 2.6 trillion floating point operations per second. The system will be used for a wide variety of astronomical research projects, including the modeling of emissions and other aspects of comets, planetary atmospheres, extra-solar planets, the birth and evolution of stars, the hierarchical growth of galaxies and clusters and their large-scale distribution.

该项目涉及组装一台高性能的Beowulf级超级计算机，以提供每秒超过2.6万亿次浮点运算。该系统将用于广泛的天文研究项目，包括彗星、行星大气、太阳系外行星的排放和其他方面的建模，恒星的诞生和演化，星系和星团的分级增长及其大规模分布。