MRI-R2: Acquisition of a high performance central computing facility at UCSB

MRI-R2：在 UCSB 收购高性能中央计算设施

• 批准号: 0960316
• 负责人: Frank Brown
• 金额: $ 66.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 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=0960316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Acquisition; performance; central

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)." Proposal #: 09-60316PI(s): Brown, Frank, L.; Fredrickson, Glenn, H.; Garcia-Cervera, Carlos; Gilbert, John, R.; Van de Walle, Christian, G.Institution: University of California-Santa Barbara Title: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a High Performance Central Computing Facility at UCSBProject Proposed:This project, acquiring of a computational cluster to replace a six-year-old system, allows access to fast mid-sized parallel computation to dozens of researchers and serves as the institution's primary resource for parallel computation. The system is structured for a variety of uses. Standard MPI computation is carried out with a tightly coupled cluster of quad core processors, while 'fat nodes' with 256 GB of RAM as well as local high speed disk storage service jobs that require large shared memory. Researchers actively developing codes can take advantage of the unique performance characteristics of GPU (graphics processing) nodes. The system will have several NVidia Tesla nodes.The users of the system are drawn from all five departments of the College of Engineering (Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering), seven departments of the Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences (Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth Science, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology, Mathematics, Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Physics, and Psychology), as well as the departments of Economics, Geography, and Media Arts & Technology from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, the system supports research in eight campus centers: Allosphere Research Facility, the California NanoSystems Institute, the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, the Institute for Crustal Studies, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Materials Research Laboratory, the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, and the Neuroscience Research Institute.The new system will be housed in the same location as the previous one where the same successful administrative and maintenance procedures used for the past six years will be applied. The proposed cluster will be accessible via the UC Grid, a web portal interface that makes high performance computing resources easy to use from desktop machines (PCs or Macs). The acquired system will come with a three-year warranty. Prior experience has shown that only a small number of nodes are expected to malfunction during the useful lifetime ( 3 years) of the cluster. Broader Impacts: The research enabled by the campus-wide facility, interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature, is available to the broad research community. The large majority of users, roughly 75%, consists of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates (5%), allowing this award to accomplish NSF's longstanding goal of integrating research and education. Outreach to K-12 takes place via a new initiative, The School for Scientific Thought (SST), an extension to the Let's Explore Physical Sciences (LEAPS) Program. Under the SST Program UCSB science and engineering graduate students design and teach a course for an audience of high school students on Saturdays. In addition, many of the faculty associated with this proposal participate in the UC Leadership Excellence through the Advanced Degrees program that has increased the number of underrepresented students in science and engineering at UCSB.

“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。“提案编号：09- 60316 PI（s）：布朗，弗兰克，L.; Fredrickson，Glenn，H.; Garcia-Cervera，卡洛斯;吉尔伯特，约翰;货车de Walle，Christian，G.机构：加州大学圣巴巴拉分校职称： MRI-R2：在UCSB购买一个高性能中央计算设施项目建议：这个项目，购买一个计算集群，以取代一个六岁的系统，允许访问快速中型并行计算的几十名研究人员，并作为该机构的主要资源并行计算。 该系统是为各种用途而设计的。 标准的MPI计算是通过紧密耦合的四核处理器集群进行的，而“胖节点”具有256 GB的RAM以及需要大型共享内存的本地高速磁盘存储服务作业。积极开发代码的研究人员可以利用GPU（图形处理）节点的独特性能特性。 该系统将有多个NVIDIA Tesla节点，系统用户来自工程学院的所有五个系（化学工程、计算机科学、电气计算机工程、材料和机械工程），数学、生命和物理科学部的七个系（化学生物化学、地球科学、生态进化海洋生物学、数学、分子细胞发育生物学、物理和心理学），以及人文和社会科学部的经济学、地理学和媒体艺术技术系。此外，该系统还支持八个校园中心的研究：Allosphere研究设施，加州纳米系统研究所，聚合物和有机固体中心，地壳研究所，Kavli理论物理研究所，材料研究实验室，国家生态分析合成中心&，和神经科学研究所。新系统将与前一个系统位于同一地点，并将采用过去六年来成功使用的相同管理和维护程序。 拟议的集群将通过UC Grid访问，UC Grid是一个门户网站界面，使高性能计算资源易于从台式机（PC或Mac）使用。 收购的系统将提供三年保修。以前的经验表明，在群集的使用寿命（3年）内，预计只有少数节点会发生故障。 更广泛的影响：由校园范围内的设施，跨学科和协作性质的研究，是提供给广大的研究社区。绝大多数用户（约75%）由博士后，研究生和本科生（5%）组成，使该奖项能够实现NSF整合研究和教育的长期目标。通过一项新的倡议，科学思想学院（SST），让我们探索物理科学（LEAPS）计划的延伸，对K-12进行了推广。 根据SST计划UCSB科学和工程研究生设计和教授课程的高中学生在星期六的观众。 此外，许多与该提案相关的教师通过高级学位计划参与UC领导卓越计划，该计划增加了UCSB科学和工程专业代表性不足的学生人数。