MRI: Acquisition of High Performance Computing Equipment for Research and Teaching at an Undergraduate Liberal Arts College

MRI：采购高性能计算设备用于本科文学院的研究和教学

• 批准号: 1827373
• 负责人: Amy Yuen
• 金额: $ 15.12万
• 依托单位: Middlebury College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Performance; Computing; Equipment

This Major Research Instrumentation Grant award supports the acquisition of a high-performance computing (HPC) system, the first large-scale, interdisciplinary research cluster at Middlebury College, a research intensive undergraduate institution. Cutting-edge research in the natural and social sciences utilizes digital technology to model and evaluate important social, environmental and scientific problems. Sophisticated modeling techniques and expanding datasets require the processing capabilities of a multi-processor server with the capability to read and analyze datasets sized as large as several hundred gigabytes or low terabytes. High-performance computing systems offer computing power that is useable across any discipline with computer modeling or data analysis applications. The research to be supported by this equipment is varied and impactful, ranging from studies of the impact of trade and agricultural technology on food markets to genomic studies of variation in pain sensitivity. This proposal includes nine separate research projects slated to use the HPC system with many more in queue. Overall, this substantial increase in processing capability enhances the scope of existing research at Middlebury and makes possible new projects that would have otherwise been impossible with existing computing infrastructure. HPC also supports faculty-mentored research-training programs in the social and natural sciences, fulfilling a critical part of the college's teaching mission. Middlebury College takes special effort to recruit and support underrepresented minorities in the STEM and STEM-related social sciences. HPC increases student access to faculty-guided research in these fields. The research to be conducted focuses primarily on human behaviors with the potential to refine best practices in neurological and genomic studies. Research projects will leverage the HPC resource across political science, economics, neuroscience, computer science and biology. One project examines heterogeneous causes for unemployment and their impact on labor market recovery rates, suggesting more targeted corrective measures for unemployment. A neuroscience study explores pain perception and stress responses, focusing on how animals learn in response to noxious stimuli and tying particular genes to variation in responses. Two other projects involve DNA sequencing. One offers new modeling techniques to improve genotype prediction from observed data; another examines toxic algae blooms and investigates viruses as bloom-mitigation mechanisms using genome sequencing techniques. The flexibility of HPC makes it a multi-disciplinary tool to enhance research across STEM-related social sciences and more traditional STEM fields.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项重大研究仪器补助金支持收购高性能计算（HPC）系统，这是米德尔伯里学院（Middlebury College）的第一个大规模跨学科研究集群，这是一个研究密集型本科院校。自然科学和社会科学领域的前沿研究利用数字技术对重要的社会、环境和科学问题进行建模和评估。复杂的建模技术和不断扩展的数据集需要多处理器服务器的处理能力，该服务器能够读取和分析大小高达数百GB或低TB的数据集。高性能计算系统提供的计算能力可用于任何具有计算机建模或数据分析应用程序的学科。该设备支持的研究是多种多样和有影响力的，从贸易和农业技术对食品市场的影响研究到疼痛敏感性变化的基因组研究。该提案包括九个独立的研究项目，计划使用HPC系统，还有更多的项目正在排队。总体而言，处理能力的大幅提高增强了米德尔伯里现有研究的范围，并使现有计算基础设施无法实现的新项目成为可能。HPC还支持教师指导的研究培训计划，在社会和自然科学，履行学院的教学使命的重要组成部分。Middlebury College特别努力招募和支持STEM和STEM相关社会科学中代表性不足的少数民族。HPC增加了学生在这些领域获得教师指导的研究。将进行的研究主要集中在人类行为上，有可能完善神经学和基因组研究的最佳实践。研究项目将利用政治学，经济学，神经科学，计算机科学和生物学的HPC资源。一个项目研究了失业的各种原因及其对劳动力市场复苏率的影响，提出了更有针对性的失业纠正措施。一项神经科学研究探索了疼痛感知和压力反应，重点是动物如何学习对有害刺激的反应，并将特定基因与反应的变化联系起来。另外两个项目涉及DNA测序。一个提供了新的建模技术，以改善从观察到的数据的基因型预测;另一个检查有毒藻类水华和调查病毒作为水华缓解机制，使用基因组测序技术。HPC的灵活性使其成为一个多学科的工具，以加强跨STEM相关的社会科学和更传统的STEM领域的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

Negotiating peacekeeping consent: Information and peace outcomes

谈判维和同意：信息与和平成果

• DOI: 10.1177/0022343319861424
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Peace Research
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Yuen, Amy