Upgrade of Computing Facilities for Solid Earth Geodynamics Research at UC Davis

[09:29 . 759]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。拨款将支持加州大学戴维斯分校地质系计算机设备的升级。将获得美国组装和测试的120个CPU、240 GB RAM的计算集群。该计算设施将支持一系列数值密集型地球动力学研究，包括对南阿拉斯加俯冲带的三维变形场、脊俯冲、羽流俯冲相互作用、海洋高原变形以及俯冲和地幔混合期间地壳碎片增生的建模研究。该集群还将支持用于控制3-D沉浸式虚拟现实环境的新算法的开发。学生将接受最先进的并行代码开发和测试方面的培训

0929759BillenThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support upgrade of compute facilities in the Department of Geology at the University of California at Davis. A U.S. assembled and tested, 120 CPU compute cluster with 240 GB of RAM will be acquired. The computational facility will support a range of numerically intensive geodynamics research including modeling studies of 3-D deformation field in the Southern Alaska subduction zone, ridge subduction, plume-subduction interaction, oceanic plateau deformation and crustal-fragment accretion during subduction and mantle mixing. The cluster will also support development of new algorithms for control of 3-D immersive virtual reality environments. Students will be trained in state-of-the-art parallel code development and testing.***