MRI: Acquisition of a high-performance computer (HPC)

该项目收购了一台高性能计算(HPC)仪器，旨在满足一所小型文理学院在研究和本科培训方面的需求。该仪器为14名研究人员和大约80名本科生提供了强大的能力，将特别影响计算机科学、生物学、化学、经济学、物理学和统计学，并使生物信息学、基因组学、图像分析、矩阵运算和模拟成为可能。圣劳伦斯大学有一项科学、技术、工程和数学(S-STEM)奖学金，招募代表人数不足的学生与高级和初级教员一起开展项目。该机构还拥有资源，通过S-STEM、高等教育机会计划、麦克奈尔奖学金和大学科学和技术进入计划(CSTEP)倡议，招募妇女和代表性不足的少数民族成员。在该仪器的帮助下，将举办关于R统计软件包的研讨会，并将在HPC指导初级教员。该仪器将用于跨学科和跨学科活动，包括服务和与其他大学(如克拉克森)共享，以实现大规模并行。该集群使一个新的数据科学专业能够运行其实验。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project, acquiring a high-performance computing (HPC) instrument, aims to service the needs of a small liberal arts college in research and undergraduate training. The instrument provides a powerful capability to 14 researchers and approximately 80 undergraduates, and will specifically impact computer science, biology, chemistry, economics, physics, and statistics, and enable bioinformatics, genomics, image analysis, matrix operations, and simulations. Saint Lawrence University has an active Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant where underrepresented students are recruited to work on projects with senior and junior faculty. The institution also has resources to recruit women and members of under-represented minorities through S-STEM, Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), McNair Scholars, and Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) initiatives. Aided by the instrumentation, seminars will be offered on the R statistical software package, and junior faculty will be mentored in HPC.The instrumentation will be used in cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary activities, including servicing and sharing with other universities (such as Clarkson) for large scale parallelization. The cluster enables a new Data Science major that will have access to run its experiments.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.