MRI: Acquisition of a Balanced Environment for Simulation

这笔重大研究仪器拨款支持伦斯勒理工学院购买一台网络仪器，该仪器将下一代大规模并行计算机与集成的大规模高性能存储和可视化组件结合在一起。网络仪器将提供一个平衡的大规模并行计算平台，能够支持需要数据和计算密集型模拟和可视化的广泛学科的尖端研究。该网络仪器将加速正在进行的数据密集型计算研究，开发新的高度可扩展的算法，并教育伦斯勒的下一代高性能计算研究人员和从业者。网络仪器的核心将设在伦斯勒的纳米技术创新计算中心(CCNI)，该中心支持来自50多所大学、国家实验室、工业研究中心和小企业的600多名用户(研究人员和学生)。网络仪器将使用户群体能够更加专注于开发未来高核数大规模并行计算机所需的模拟工具，并将加快数据密集型计算研究的新领域。这一出色的平衡系统将吸引来自美国各地大学的研究人员。将特别重视从服务不足的群体中吸引研究人员。

This Major Research Instrumentation grant supports acquisition of a cyberinstrument at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which combines a next generation massively parallel computer with integrated large-scale high-performance storage and visualization components. The cyberinstrument will provide a well-balanced massively parallel computing platform capable of supporting cutting edge research across a wide range of disciplines that require both data and compute intensive simulations and visualizations. The cyberinstrument will accelerate ongoing data-intensive computational research, the development of new highly scalable algorithms, and the education of the next generation of high-performance computing researchers and practitioners at Rensselaer. The core of the cyberinstrument will be located at Rensselaer's Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) which supports over 600 users (researchers and students) from more than 50 universities, national laboratories, industrial research centers and small businesses. The cyberinstrument will allow that user community to more strongly focus on the development of the simulation tools needed for the future high core count massively parallel computers and will accelerate new areas of data intensive computing research. This outstanding balanced system will attract researchers from universities across the United States. Specific emphasis will be placed on attracting researchers from under-served groups.