MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computer Cluster for The New York Botanical Garden

MRI：为纽约植物园采购高性能计算机集群

• 批准号: 0922799
• 负责人: Damon Little
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922799&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Performance; Computer; Cluster

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a high performance computer cluster at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The cluster will be used to study a wide variety of topics in plant biology including evolution, gene function, three-dimensional image reconstruction, ecosystem function, and DNA based specimen identification. The analyses conducted with the computer cluster will be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. A computer cluster at NYBG will broadly impact the research of a wide variety of constituencies: (1) An internship program formed between NYBG and the Bronx High School of Science, a school of highly gifted students from predominantly minority background, will give at students the opportunity to perform independent research in a laboratory. (2) The quality of the graduate program will improve as students will have a more powerful data analysis option and will be more broadly trained in current techniques. (3) Undergraduate and graduate students will be offered a class on Computational Methods in Biology at Lehman College (CUNY), a predominantly minority institution.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该主要研究仪器（MRI）奖资助在纽约植物园（NYBG）购置高性能计算机集群。该集群将用于研究植物生物学中的各种主题，包括进化，基因功能，三维图像重建，生态系统功能和基于DNA的标本鉴定。通过计算机集群进行的分析将发表在同行评审的科学期刊上。NYBG的计算机集群将广泛地影响各种领域的研究：(1)NYBG和布朗克斯科学高中（Bronx High School of Science）之间形成的实习计划将为学生提供在实验室进行独立研究的机会。布朗克斯科学高中是一所主要来自少数民族背景的高天赋学生的学校。(2)研究生课程的质量将得到提高，因为学生将有更强大的数据分析选项，并将在当前技术方面得到更广泛的培训。(3)本科生和研究生将在雷曼学院（CUNY）学习生物学中的计算方法，这是一个以少数民族为主的机构。