A Modern Computer Facility for the Caltech Seismology Laboratory

该奖项将提供部分资金用于购买计算机系统，以满足加州理工学院地震实验室的科学需求。请求的系统由工作站网络、文件服务器和矢量组成。并行超小型计算机相互连接，并由国家超级计算机组成。链接速度。超过50%的配套资金将由研究所和私营企业提供。计算机是地震实验室师生的主要研究工具。随着越来越多的数字地震数据的出现，随着越来越多的观测约束和对底层物理的深入了解，它们将变得越来越重要，这些都推动了构造物理学、矿物物理学和行星地球物理学中越来越复杂的建模工作。加州理工学院地震实验室在所有这些研究领域都处于领先地位，新的计算机系统将允许他们访问并行和矢量架构以及软件工具，以便在现代计算环境中进行研究。

This award will provide partial funding toward the purchase of a computer system to meet the scientific needs of the Caltech Seismology Laboratory. The system requested consists of a network of workstations, fileservers, and a vector.parallel superminicomputer connected to each other and to the national supercomputers by high.speed links. Over 50% matching funds will be provided by the Institute and private industry. Computers are the main research tools of the faculty and students of the Seismological Laboratory. They will become increasingly important as more digital seismic data become available and as more observational constraints and deeper understanding of the underlying physics drive increasingly sophisticated modeling efforts in tectonophysics, mineral physics, and planetary geophysics. The Caltech Seismological Laboratory has been a leader in all of these areas of research, and the new computer system will allow them access to parallel and vector architectures and the software tools to carry it out in a modern computational environment.