Establishment of a State-of-the-Art Computer Facility for Basic Research in the Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory

提供资金用于分担Lamont-Doherty地质观测站购置和安装一个新的大型计算机设施的费用。该设施将供拉蒙的所有调查人员使用，并将用于支持海洋学和其他研究项目。新系统是围绕一个分布式工作站网络构建的，这些工作站通过以太网连接到位于中央位置的文件服务器和外围设备。现代化的硬件和网络技术已经被整合，这些技术是专门为拉蒙基础研究项目的主要观测性质而配置的。该系统的联网功能还允许根据研究需要进行扩展，并允许使用越来越多地用于地球科学数值建模的大型远程计算设施。

Funds are provided to cost-share the acquisition and installation of a major new computer facility at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. The facility will be available to all investigators at Lamont and will be used in support of oceanographic and other research projects. The new system is built around a distributed network of workstations connected through an ethernet to fileservers and peripherals at a central location. Modern hardware and networking techniques have been incorporated that are especially configured for the predominately observational nature of the basic research programs at Lamont. The networking feature of the system also permits expansion as research requirements demand and allows access to larger, remotely accessed computing facilities that are increasingly used in geosciences numerical modelling.