Computational Facility for Structural Biology

结构生物学计算设施

• 批准号: 6730900
• 负责人: STEVEN Owen SMITH
• 金额: $ 20.91万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6730900
• 关键词: biomedical equipment purchase; computer graphics /printing; computer system hardware; structural biology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Structural Biology (CSB) was established in 1998 as an institutional and interdepartmental effort to introduce structural biology to the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The CSB is housed on the first and ground floors of the Centers for Molecular Medicine. The CSB is comprised of core faculty from three different departments in the University, which interact closely with each other and several faculties from various departments on campus. Besides supporting the research of the CSB members the center provides easy access to computational facilities for departmental faculty throughout the University. The aim of the current proposal is to upgrade the outdated and partially non-functional computational equipment that was purchased in 1998 and still forms the core facility in the CSB. The equipment requested consists of three major components: graphics workstations, a multi-processor computational server, and data storage and backup capabilities. The plan is to replace our current Silicon Graphics servers and workstations with a PC-based facility. The advantage is increased performance, lower cost for the equipment and lower cost for maintenance. The facility is supported strongly by the SUNY Stony Brook, which covers 50% of the salary for in the terms of salary for a Ph.D. level computational facility manager. The computational equipment requested will have a significant impact on the NIH supported research carried out by the core faculty of the Center for Structural Biology as well as multiple minor users from four departments on campus.

描述（由申请人提供）： 结构生物学中心（CSB）成立于1998年，是一种机构和部门间努力，向纽约州立大学的斯托尼·布鲁克（Stony Brook）介绍了结构生物学。 CSB位于分子医学中心的第一和地板上。 CSB由大学三个不同系的核心教师组成，这些系数与校园各个部门的几个学院紧密互动。除了支持CSB成员的研究外，该中心还可以轻松地访问整个大学的系学院的计算设施。当前建议的目的是升级1998年购买的过时且部分非功能的计算设备，并且仍然构成了CSB中的核心设施。要求的设备由三个主要组件组成：图形工作站，多处理器计算服务器以及数据存储和备份功能。该计划是用基于PC的设施替换当前的硅图形服务器和工作站。优势是提高性能，设备的成本较低和维护成本较低。 SUNY Stony Brook在强烈支持该设施的情况下，该设施覆盖了博士学位的薪水的50％。水平计算设施管理器。所要求的计算设备将对结构生物学中心核心学院以及来自校园四个部门的多个未成年人核心学院进行的NIH支持研究产生重大影响。