MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Small Computing Cluster for Geophysical Research

MRI-R2：获取用于地球物理研究的小型计算集群

• 批准号: 0958616
• 负责人: Varavut Limpasuvan
• 金额: $ 10.46万
• 依托单位: Coastal Carolina University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Acquisition; Small; Computing

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports acquisition of a 24-node computing cluster system. The system will be housed in the Coastal Carolina University (CCU) Coastal Science Center and managed jointly by CCU's Information and Technology Services (ITS) and the Physics and Marine Science departments. The primary purpose of the cluster is to further studies in geophysical processes. The cluster will also be made available to the full CCU community to benefit students, post-docs and faculty who are conducting research with emphasis on computation. Intellectual Merit: The primary task of the cluster system is to advance two research projects in geophysics. The first project requires the cluster to operate the Advanced Regional Prediction System [ARPS] to simulate wintertime atmospheric disturbances that can influence the polar circulation and the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. Results from this project will enhance understanding of the variability of the polar atmosphere and polar stratospheric ozone loss and recovery. The second project uses the cluster to run the Regional Ocean Modeling System [ROMS] to simulate geological, physical, and biological impacts on the timing and location of low-oxygen water columns (hypoxic areas) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Results from this project help to quantitatively define the dispersal pattern of sediment and organic matter and key oceanographic processes influencing development of the low-oxygen regions. Broader Impacts. The projects offer undergraduates a unique exposure to hands-on, cutting-edge research that may not otherwise be available at similar state-supported Liberal Arts institutions. Participating student researchers will be involved in building and maintaining the cluster, conducting computer modeling experiments, analyzing model output, and presenting/writing research results. Additionally, results of the projects and cluster usage will be incorporated into courses like Fluid Dynamics and Atmospheric Physics emphasized in CCU's new Applied Physics curriculum and new courses like Sedimentary Geology and Coastal Marine and Wetland Processes in Marine Science. The integration of research and education related to the cluster will strengthen CCU's institutional commitment toward enhancing undergraduate education through inquiry-based learning. Capabilities of the new cluster will be made available to all CCU faculty members and their students across multiple disciplines. Present research activities in Archaeology, Art History, Astrophysics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences will immediately benefit from the new cluster. The new cluster will also support a new CCU Post-Doctoral Fellowship program supported by local businesses to promote research in South Carolina.

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。该奖项支持购买24节点计算集群系统。该系统将设在沿海卡罗莱纳大学（CCU）沿海科学中心，并由CCU的信息和技术服务（ITS）以及物理和海洋科学系联合管理。该组的主要目的是进一步研究地球物理过程。该集群还将提供给整个CCU社区，以使正在进行重点计算研究的学生，博士后和教师受益。智力优势：集群系统的主要任务是推进两个物理学研究项目。第一个项目要求该集群操作高级区域预报系统，模拟冬季大气扰动，这种扰动可能影响极地环流和极地平流层云的形成。该项目的成果将增进对极地大气和极地平流层臭氧损失和恢复的可变性的了解。第二个项目使用集群运行区域海洋模拟系统（ROMS），以模拟地质，物理和生物对墨西哥湾北方低氧水柱（缺氧区）的时间和位置的影响。该项目的结果有助于定量确定沉积物和有机物的扩散模式以及影响低氧区发展的关键海洋学过程。更广泛的影响。这些项目为本科生提供了一个独特的接触动手，尖端的研究，否则可能无法在类似的国家支持的文科院校。参与的学生研究人员将参与建立和维护集群，进行计算机建模实验，分析模型输出，并提交/撰写研究结果。此外，项目和集群使用的结果将被纳入CCU新应用物理课程中强调的流体动力学和大气物理学等课程，以及海洋科学中的沉积地质学和沿海海洋和湿地过程等新课程。与集群相关的研究和教育的整合将加强CCU对通过探究式学习加强本科教育的机构承诺。新集群的功能将提供给CCU的所有教职员工及其跨多个学科的学生。目前在考古学、艺术史、天体物理学、应用数学和计算机科学方面的研究活动将立即受益于新的集群。新的集群还将支持一个新的CCU博士后奖学金计划，该计划由当地企业支持，以促进南卡罗来纳州的研究。