Upgrading of Shared Computing Equipment in Geophysics

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。赠款将用于支持斯克里普斯海洋研究所地球物理和行星物理研究所(IGPP)计算机设施的升级。升级将包括购买多台配备海量随机存取存储器的新MacPro台式计算机、两台XServe服务器和一个XServe 16 TB RAID磁盘阵列。计算能力的增强将使国家科学基金会资助的研究的大量教员受益，研究范围从地幔熔体和大洋地壳流体的电磁勘探，到大陆裂谷过程的地震成像，再到地壳和冰冻圈动力学的空间大地测量研究。更广泛的影响包括传统的IGPP在研究生指导方面的卓越表现，以及将从所请求的升级中受益的NSF支持的IGPP科学家的大量基础。请求的升级包括Macintosh计算平台(一家美国公司)。***

0926762ShearerThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support upgrade of compute facilities at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Upgrades will include purchase of multiple new MacPro desktop computers with massive random access memory, two XServe servers and an XServe 16 TB RAID disk array. The enhance compute capacity will benefit a large number of of faculty at IGPP for NSF funded studies ranging from electromagnetic exploration for mantle melts and oceanic crustal fluids, to seismologic imaging of continental rifting processes to space geodetic studies of crustal and cryosphere dynamics. Broader impacts include the tradition IGPP excellence in graduate student mentorship and the large base of NSF supported scientists with IGPP that will benefit from the requested upgrade. Requested upgrades include Macintosh compute platforms (a U.S. company). ***