MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Compute Cluster for Multidisciplinary Research

根据这项重大研究仪器（MRI）项目，俄克拉荷马州州立大学高性能计算中心（OSUHPCC）将获得、部署和维护一台名为Cowboy的HPC集群超级计算机，该计算机将支持各种科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科的计算密集型研究和研究培训。作为一个校园范围内的共享资源，牛仔将不仅提供给所有的俄勒冈州立大学的教师，工作人员，博士后，研究生和本科生，但整个俄克拉荷马州的研究人员。计算和数据使能科学与工程（CDESE）研究的许多领域将促进拟议的系统通过合作研究团队，预计用户数量增加一倍，每12个月的基础上的经验日期。项目包括：颗粒材料的力学和核包覆材料中的断裂模拟;犬髋关节发育不良的发现基因;多核系统每瓦特性能的改进;成年和胚胎鼠干细胞系中决定事件的转录谱;破译宿主-病原体相互作用、复杂碳水化合物代谢和纤维素生物能的基因组、宏基因组和蛋白质组方法;地球物理流体建模;计算化学;纳米结构材料的模拟;碳纳米管生长的模拟;模拟气相和凝聚相材料;地表地质的地震特征;计算优化;最佳误差控制编码和压缩传感技术;电荷、自旋和热传输;菊科的分子生物学;禾本科和豆科植物形态多样性和驯化的进化遗传学（菊科）;强大的电磁场测试;极端嗜红菌Galdieria sulphuraria的基因组分析;在不断发展的社交网络中整合数据;交换代数中的计算和组合方法;与非栽培和栽培植物相关的微生物;调强放射治疗计划软件;和马利筋（马利筋属，夹竹桃科）的基因组学。俄克拉荷马州的用户来自24所院校，其中包括俄克拉荷马州13所公立大学中的11所。俄克拉荷马州超级计算研讨会（MRI PI Brunson是2011年会议联合主席），在EPSCoR管辖范围内每年举办的唯一一次此类活动，8年来已有来自24个州和波多黎各92个学术机构的2000多名与会者（包括俄克拉荷马州的33家和其他12个EPSCoR管辖区的26家）、97家私营公司、31家政府机构和14家非营利组织。 该项目包括七名女性高级人员，她们作为榜样，正在创造对计算科学和工程的兴趣和兴奋。该项目还包括俄克拉荷马州唯一的历史上的黑人大学兰斯顿大学的两名研究人员的参与。研究项目包括80名研究生和29名本科生，其中包括29名妇女，一名非洲裔美国人，三名美洲原住民和三名西班牙裔。

Under this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) project, Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center (OSUHPCC) will acquire, deploy and maintain an HPC cluster supercomputer, to be named Cowboy, that will support computing-intensive research and research training across a broad variety of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As a campus-wide shared resource, Cowboy will be available not only to all of OSU's faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates, but to researchers across Oklahoma.Many areas of Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDESE) research will be facilitated by the proposed system by collaborating research teams with an expected doubling of the number of users every 12 months based on experience to date. Projects include: mechanics of granular materials and fracture simulations in nuclear clad materials; discovery genes for canine hip dysplasia; improvements to performance per Watt of many-core systems; transcriptional profiling of determination events in adult and embryonic murine stem cell lines; genomic, metagenomic and proteomic approaches to decipher host- pathogen interactions, complex carbohydrate metabolism and cellulosic bioenergy; modeling geophysical fluids; computational chemistry; simulations of nanostructured materials; simulation of the growth of carbon nanotubes; simulating gas-phase and condensed-phase materials; seismic characterization of surface geology; computational optimization; optimal error-control coding and compressive sensing techniques; charge, spin and heat transport; molecular phylogeny of the Asteraceae; evolutionary genetics of morphological diversification and domestication in grasses (Poaceae) and mustards (Brassicaceae); robust electromagnetic field testing; phylogenomic analyses of the extremophile red alga Galdieria sulphuraria; integrating data in evolving social networks; computational and combinatorial methods in commutative algebra; microbes associated with non-cultivated and cultivated plants; intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning software; and phylogenomics of milkweeds (Asclepias, Apocynaceae). Oklahoma users are at 24 institutions, including 11 of Oklahoma's 13 public universities. The Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium (MRI PI Brunson is 2011 Conference Co-Chair), the only event of its kind held annually in an EPSCoR jurisdiction, in 8 years has had over 2000 attendees from 92 academic institutions in 24 states and Puerto Rico (including 33 in Oklahoma and 26 in 12 other EPSCoR jurisdictions), 97 private companies, 31 government agencies and 14 nonprofits. This project includes seven women senior personnel who serve as role models and are creating interest and excitement about computational science and engineering. This project also includes participation of two researchers at Langston University, Oklahoma's sole Historically Black University. Research projects include 80 graduate students and 29 undergraduates, including 29 women, an African American, three Native Americans and three Hispanics.