MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computer for the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY (MERCURY)

汉密尔顿学院化学系将从主要研究仪器(MRI)项目中获得一个计算机和磁盘空间系统。它将满足一个用户联盟的计算需求。该联盟被称为本科计算化学分子教育和研究联盟(水星)，成员包括乔治·希尔兹(汉密尔顿学院)、玛丽亚·戈麦斯(曼荷莲学院)、卡罗尔·帕里什(里士满大学)、马克·齐默尔(康涅狄格学院)、玛丽亚·纳根(杜鲁门州立大学)、特里西亚·谢泼德(威斯敏斯特学院)、格列尼松·德·奥利维拉(罗德岛学院)、米卡·艾布拉姆斯(阿肯色中部大学)、毛里西奥·卡菲罗(罗兹学院)、凯林(里士满大学)、Becky Eggimann(惠顿学院)、Karl Kirschner(汉密尔顿学院)、大庆高(纽约州立大学昆斯伯勒社区学院)和埃里克·帕特森(杜鲁门州立大学)。所请求的仪器将在水星联盟之间共享，以使用理论和计算化学界通用的技术来调查问题。这台计算机将提供能够理解物质性质的计算技术。所承担的研究项目将利用计算工具来解决大气、生物、无机、材料、有机和物理化学方面的重大问题。这项研究将主要由不同的本科生进行，他们将接受使用最新计算机硬件和计算技术的宝贵培训。

The Department of Chemistry at Hamilton College will acquire a computer and disk space system with this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program. It will serve the computational needs of a consortium of users. The consortium known as the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY (MERCURY) consists of George Shields (Hamilton College), Maria Gomez (Mount Holyoke College), Carol Parish (University of Richmond), Marc Zimmer (Connecticut College), Maria Nagan (Truman State University), Tricia Shepherd (Westminster College), Glênisson de Oliveira (Rhode Island College), Micah Abrams (University of Central Arkansas), Mauricio Cafiero (Rhodes College), Kelling Donald (University of Richmond), Becky Eggimann (Wheaton College), Karl Kirschner (Hamilton College), Daqing Gao (Queensborough Community College of CUNY), and Eric Patterson (Truman State University). The requested instrumentation will be shared among the MERCURY Consortium to investigate problems using techniques common to the theoretical and computational chemistry community.This computer will provide enabling computational technology to understand the properties of matter. The research projects undertaken will utilize computational tools to solve significant problems in atmospheric, biological, inorganic, materials, organic, and physical chemistry. The research will be largely conducted by a diverse body of undergraduates who will receive valuable training using up-to-date computer hardware and computational techniques.