Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences (SCREMS) at IIT

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The Department of Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technologywill purchase a high performance computer cluster of 128 processors withsupporting software, which will be dedicated to the support of ongoing researchprojects and educational efforts in large-scale parallel computing. Theequipment will be used for seven research projects in applied mathematics,which require intensive computer simulations. Mathematically, all projects arerelated to modeling, numerical analysis and simulation of deterministic andstochastic (partial) differential equations, covering a wide range ofapplications that include materials science, geoscience, finance, biology,environmental fluid mechanics, plasma physics and software engineering.The proposed program will provide excellent training opportunities for graduatestudents in parallel computing and offer them easy access and hands-onexperience to a high performance computing cluster. Four courses incomputational mathematics will be enhanced by incorporating parallelcomputation, which will benefit both graduate and undergraduate students fromdifferent disciplines, including Applied Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, CivilEngineering and Computer Science. The PIs in the proposal have outstandingtrack records of recruiting and scientifically nurturing women andunderrepresented minority students and the grant will enable them to trainthese students in state-of-the-art scientific computing. On the technologicaland social aspects, the proposed cluster will provide support for sevenresearch projects that have applications to a broader set of related problemsincluding global climate change, option pricing, membrane-based drug delivery,environmental research and monitoring, and large-scale computing software.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)