Upgrade of Computational Equipment for the Rice Earth Science Department

水稻地学系计算设备升级

• 批准号: 0933811
• 负责人: Alan Levander
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 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 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0933811&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrade; Computational; Equipment; Rice; Earth

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.

0933811莱万德这笔赠款支持赖斯大学地球科学系的研究计算设施的升级。 资金将用于购买一个Sun多双核CPU服务器，配备32 Gb RAM和3 TB RAID海量存储，以及在一个集中式大学网格机器上增加和访问时钟周期。 后一个Rice系统被称为SUGaR（共享大学网格@ Rice），目前拥有1280个CPU。 这笔赠款的支持将为SUGaR购买128个额外的CPU、96 Gb RAM和12 Tb的RAID存储。 购买还将允许PI访问SUGaR上任何未使用的周期，大学为系统管理，电源和调节提供中央支持。 五个PI和另外六个赖斯学院将受益于拟议的增强计算能力，用于地球动力学，地震学，水文学和物理火山学的数值密集型研究。