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

该项目获得了高性能计算（HPC）仪器，旨在满足小型文理学院在研究和本科生培训方面的需求。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，并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，并实现生物信息学，基因组学，图像分析，矩阵运算和模拟。圣劳伦斯大学有一个积极的科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金，招收代表性不足的学生与高级和初级教师一起研究项目。该机构还拥有通过S-STEM、高等教育机会计划（HEOP）、麦克奈尔学者和大学科学技术入门计划（CSTEP）计划招募女性和代表性不足的少数民族成员的资源。在仪器的帮助下，将提供关于R统计软件包的研讨会，并将对初级教师进行HPC指导。该仪器将用于跨学科和跨学科活动，包括为其他大学（如克拉克森大学）提供大规模并行化服务和共享。这个集群使一个新的数据科学专业的学生能够运行它的实验。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.