Upgrade of Computational Equipment for the Rice Earth Science Department

这项拨款支持莱斯大学地球科学系研究计算设施的升级。资金将用于购买Sun多双核CPU服务器，该服务器具有32gb RAM和3tb RAID大容量存储，以及在中央大学网格机器上增强和访问时钟周期。后一个Rice系统被称为SUGaR（共享大学网格@ Rice），目前容纳1280个cpu。这笔拨款将为SUGaR购买128个额外的cpu、96 Gb RAM和12 Tb RAID存储。购买还将允许pi访问SUGaR上任何未使用的周期，大学为此提供系统管理，电源和调节的中央支持。五名pi和另外六名Rice教员将从拟议的增强计算能力中受益，用于地球动力学、地震学、水文学和物理火山学方面的数值密集型研究。

0933811LevanderThis grant supports upgrade of research computing facilities in the Department of Earth Science at Rice University. Funds will be used to purchase a Sun multi dual core CPU server w/ 32 Gb of RAM and 3 TB RAID mass store as well as augmentation of and access to clock cycles on a centralized University grid machine. The latter Rice system is termed SUGaR (Shared University Grid @ Rice) and currently houses 1280 CPUs. Support from this grant will buy 128 additional CPUs, 96 Gb RAM and 12 Tb of RAID storage for SUGaR. The buy in will also allow PIs to access any unused cycles on SUGaR, for which the University provides central support for system administration, power and conditioning. Five PIs and an additional six Rice faculty will benefit from the proposed enhanced computational power for numerically intensive research in geodynamics, seismology, hydrology and physical volcanology.