Interactive Visualization of Self-Organizing Cellular Automata

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校数学系与科尔比学院数学系和加州大学戴维斯分校的数学系签订了分包合同，预计将以37,500美元的价格购买设备，以支持数学科学的研究。该设备由专用的CAM-8工作站和高性能伪并行处理器组成，能够以每秒2500万个单元更新的速度实现各种晶格动力学的视频可视化。配套的硬件和软件也将在预算许可的情况下购买。该设备将帮助D. Griffeath教授（威斯康星州）、R. Fisch教授（科尔比）和J. Gravner教授（加州大学戴维斯分校）进行复杂随机系统的研究。这三位研究者在他们的合作和个人研究中严重依赖计算机实验和图形。本请求预期的主要利益如下。

The Department of Mathematics of The University of Wisconsin - Madison, with subcontracts to the Departments of Mathematics of Colby College and the University of California - Davis, will purchase, at an estimated price of $37,500, equipment to support research in the mathematical sciences. The equipment consists of dedicated CAM-8 workstations, high-performance pseudo-parallel processors that enable video visualization of a wide variety of lattice dynamics at a speed of 25 million cell updates per second. Companion hardware and software will also be purchased as the budget permits. This equipment will aid Professors D. Griffeath (Wisconsin), R. Fisch (Colby) and J. Gravner (UC-Davis) in their research on complex random systems. The three investigators rely heavily on computer experimentation and graphics in their collaborative and individual research. Primary benefits anticipated from the present request are as follows.