Computing equipment for mathematical and statistical modelling

定量模型使研究人员能够描述、预测、操纵和理解各种各样的复杂现象，从发生在几微秒内的网络交易到发生在几千年的气候变化。定量模型可以使用统计技术根据数据构建，也可以使用偏微分方程式根据物理原理构建。但当应用于实际问题时，建模变得越来越复杂，并需要大量的计算资源。建模通常涉及与数据的密集交互，这可以通过具有大内存和存储能力的快速计算机来促进。由于阿卡迪亚在建模研究方面的巨大和最近的增长，对计算资源的需求正在稳步增长。这项应用所需设备支持的研究将产生新的技术，包括将方法应用于科学的各个领域，以及对不同水平的学生进行高性能数学和统计建模的研究培训。除了主要研究人员和共同申请者外，阿卡迪亚社区的其他建模研究人员也可以使用这些设备。

Quantitative models enable researchers to describe, predict, manipulate, and understand a rich variety of complex phenomena ranging from transactions on networks occuring in microseconds to climate change that occurs over several millennia.  Models can be constructed from data using statistical techniques, or from physical principles using partial differential equations.  When applied to real problems, modelling becomes increasingly complex, and requires significant computational resources.  Modelling often involves intensive interaction with data, which can be facilitated by fast computers with large memory and storage capability.   With large and recent growth in modelling research at Acadia, demand for computational resources is steadily growing.  The research to be supported by equipment requested in this application will generate new techniques, including the application of methods to various areas of science, and research training of students at a variety of levels in high-performance mathematical and statistical modelling. The equipment will be accessible to other modelling researchers in the Acadia community, in addition to the principal investigator and co-applicants.