Purchase of Departmental Computer Facility

这份来自化学研究仪器和设施项目的合同将帮助加州大学洛杉矶分校化学系获得硅图形能力挑战L和四个工作站。该设备将加强许多领域的研究，包括：(1)有机和生化反应的理论研究；(2)开发新的量子分子动力学代码和研究表面上的分子和反应；(3)开发快速准确的蛋白质晶体结构的新方法；(4)研究簇量子动力学；(5)研究聚合物和流体的统计力学。快速现代计算机工作站网络是满足化学部门计算需求的新途径。这样的“计算机网络”还可以作为新的理论代码和算法的开发环境，提供最先进的图形和可视化设施，并支持最先进的并行处理应用程序的研究。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at University of California at Los Angeles to acquire a Silicon Graphics Power Challenge L and four workstations. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including the following: (1) theoretical studies of organic and biochemical reactions, (2) developing new quantum molecular dynamics codes and studies of molecules and reactions on surfaces, (3) development of new methods for fast and accurate protein crystal structures, (4) studies of cluster quantum dynamics, and (5) statistical mechanics for the study of polymers and fluids. A workstation network of fast modern computer workstations is a new way to satisfy the computing needs of chemistry departments. Such a "computer network" also serves as a development environment for new theoretical codes and algorithms, provides state-of-art graphics and visualization facilities, and supports research in state-of-the-art applications of parallel processing.