Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Computer Equipment for Electromagnetics Research

这项工程研究设备补助金将用于升级 电气系MicroVAX II系统 工程既作为计算资源，又作为 用于PC、终端和新图形的局域网服务器 工作站。 这将为该部提供一个有效的联系 连接到校园里的Cyber 205超级计算机， 教师和学生有效地扩展他们的能力， 进行更高层次的研究。 目标是追求 数值程序和技术的解决方案3- 涉及两个物体的维电磁学问题 任意形状和任意材料组成。此类问题 通常需要1）大量的体积几何输入数据， 实际上只能使用 图形技术在许多情况下，2）大量的计算 资源的数值解，和3）广泛的图形 输出能力，以便于 解释、评价和介绍。 未经 拟议的图形工作站能力，这种类型的先进的 电磁学的研究不能轻易地在 大学 有效访问适当的计算 资源也是必要的。

This Engineering Research Equipment Grant will be used to upgrade the MicroVAX II system of the Department of Electrical Engineering to serve both as a computational resource and as a local area network server for PC's, terminals, and new graphics workstations. This will provide the Department with an efficient link to a Cyber 205 supercomputer on campus which can be used effectively by faculty and students to extend their ability to perform research at a more advanced level. The goal is to pursue numerical procedures and techniques for the solution of 3- dimensional electromagnetics problems involving objects of both arbitrary shape and arbitrary material composition. Such problems generally require 1) extensive volumetric geometric input data, which can only be practically generated and checked using graphics techniques in many cases, 2) massive computational resources for the numerical solution, and 3) extensive graphics output capability to represent results in a manner convenient for interpretation, evaluation, and presentation. Without the proposed graphic workstation capability, this type of advanced electromagnetics research cannot be easily pursued at the University. Efficient access to appropriate computational resources is also necessary.