Upgrading to a Sustainable Infrastructure for Research Computing

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。该提案旨在增强阿肯色州费耶特维尔大学校园现有的研究计算设施和网络连接。该合同将为计划中的HPC收购提供基础设施支持，以实现约6000个核心的目标核心数量，这需要300千瓦的目标数据中心容量和10 Gbps的网络连接来支持研究计算。 改造包括增加一个新的电气服务入口，不间断电源，额外的冷却能力，校园研究网络从1Gbps升级到10Gbps，以及从校园到INTERNET2的研究网络路径。该基础设施项目将支持的研究领域包括集成纳米科学，计算化学，计算生物磁学，材料科学和空间科学。计划中的合作项目包括替代架构（包括GPGPU和多核）的编程，以及新并行硬件和软件的建模，测量和实验评估，包括与工业合作伙伴的合作将是这笔赠款的成果。来自纳米科学研究的见解，以及所谓的逆方法的直接使用，将对新的和改进的设备的设计产生重大影响，如致动器，传感器和数据存储。化学研究将能够预测药物类型分子的酸性，从而能够开发新药。生物磁学研究有可能发展一种完全被动的、非侵入性的乳腺癌检测技术。纳米复合材料的研究对传感器的设计和应用产生了广泛的影响，特别是采用聚合物基纳米复合材料作为整体组件的传感器。空间科学研究对空间数据的可靠性有着广泛的影响。阿肯色州研究和教育光纤网络（ARE-ON）将连接阿肯色州的所有公立四年制教育机构。 翻新后的设施将提供给所有ARE-ON机构和西弗吉尼亚州的合作者。我们估计，在赠款期间，将有600多名本科生和150多名研究生使用该设施。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal is to enhance the existing research computing facility and network connections at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus. This award will provide the infrastructure support for the planned HPC acquisitions to achieve a target core count of about 6000 cores, which require a target data center capacity of 300kW, and 10Gbps networking connectivity in support of research computing. The renovations include adding a new electrical service entrance, uninterruptible power supplies, additional cooling capability, campus research network upgrades from 1Gbps to 10Gbps and a research network path from the campus to INTERNET2.The research that will be supported by the renovated facility is of the highest intellectual merit. Research areas that will be enabled by this infrastructure project include integrated nanoscience, computational chemistry, computational biomagnetics, materials science, and spatial science. Planned collaborative projects include the programming of alternative architectures (including GPGPUs and multicore), and modeling, measurement, and experimental evaluation of new parallel hardware and software, including with industrial partners will be an outcome of this grant.The research to be supported by the renovated facility has very broad impact. Insights from nanoscience research, as well as the direct use of the so-called inverse method, will have great impacts on the design of new and improved devices, such as actuators, sensors, and data storage. Chemistry research will enable the prediction of acidities of drug-type molecules, enabling the development of new drugs. The biomagnetics research has the potential of developing a completely passive, non-invasive technique for breast cancer detection. Nanocomposite research has broad impact on sensor design and application, specifically sensors that employ polymer-based nanocomposites as integral components. The spatial science research has broad impact in the reliability of spatial data. The Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (ARE-ON) will connect all public four year institutions of education in Arkansas. The renovated facility will be available to all ARE-ON institutions and to collaborators in West Virginia.We estimate that over the course of the grant period more than 600 undergraduate students and more than 150 graduate students will utilize the facility.