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

在这个主要研究仪器（MRI）项目下，俄克拉荷马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的高性能计算集群超级计算机，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。作为一个全校范围的共享资源，Cowboy不仅对俄勒冈州立大学的所有教职员工、博士后、研究生和本科生开放，而且对俄克拉荷马州的研究人员开放。计算和数据支持科学与工程（CDESE）研究的许多领域将由拟议的系统通过合作研究小组促进，根据迄今为止的经验，预计每12个月用户数量将增加一倍。项目包括：颗粒材料力学和核包层材料断裂模拟；犬髋部发育不良基因的发现改进多核系统的每瓦特性能；成体和胚胎小鼠干细胞系中决定事件的转录谱分析基因组学、宏基因组学和蛋白质组学方法解读宿主-病原体相互作用、复杂碳水化合物代谢和纤维素生物能源；模拟地球物理流体；计算化学;纳米结构材料的模拟；碳纳米管生长过程的模拟模拟气相和冷凝相材料；地表地质地震特征；计算优化;最优误差控制编码和压缩感知技术；电荷、自旋和热输运；菊科植物的分子系统发育；禾本科和芥菜科植物形态多样化与驯化的进化遗传学鲁棒电磁场测试；嗜极红藻硫酸Galdieria suluraria的系统发育分析在不断发展的社交网络中整合数据；交换代数中的计算与组合方法与非栽培和栽培植物有关的微生物；调强放射治疗计划软件；乳草的系统基因组学（Asclepias, Apocynaceae）。俄克拉何马州的用户来自24所院校，其中包括俄克拉何马州13所公立大学中的11所。俄克拉何马州超级计算研讨会（MRI PI Brunson是2011年会议联合主席），这是唯一一次每年在EPSCoR管辖范围内举行的此类活动，在8年中，来自24个州和波多黎各的92个学术机构（包括俄克拉何马州的33个和其他12个EPSCoR管辖范围内的26个），97家私营公司，31家政府机构和14家非营利组织的2000多名与会者。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。该项目还包括来自兰斯顿大学的两名研究人员的参与，兰斯顿大学是俄克拉何马州唯一一所历史悠久的黑人大学。研究项目包括80名研究生和29名本科生，其中包括29名女性、一名非洲裔美国人、三名美洲原住民和三名西班牙裔美国人。

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.