Upgrading of Geophysics Computer System

西北大学地质科学系请求美国国家科学基金会提供资金，以支付其计算机系统升级费用的45%。其余55%将由西北大学出资。该计算机系统将主要用于研究全球板块运动，显示和分析数字地形、海洋磁学和卫星测高的大型数据集，地球深部物理，俯冲带动力学，以及发散板块边界的演变。拟议的升级包括一个文件服务器和两个图形工作站，这将是这些研究领域的一项资产，因为数值处理的周转时间要快得多，新图形系统的建模能力也大大增强。

The Department of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University requests funding from NSF to pay for 45% of the cost of upgrading their computer system. The remaining 55% will be contributed by Northwestern University. The computer system will be use primarily for research in global plate motions, display and analysis of large data sets for digital topography, marine magnetics and satellite altimetry, physics of the earth's deep interior, subduction zone dynamics, and the evolution of divergent plate boundaries. The proposed upgrade, consisting of a fileserver and two graphics workstations, will be an asset in these areas of research because of the much faster turnaround time in numerical processing and the greatly enhanced modeling capabilities of the new graphics system.