Upgrade of Departmental Computer System

9632364戈登这笔赠款提供91,581美元，作为购买硬件和软件的一半支持，用于升级莱斯大学地质和地球物理系计算机系统，用于地球物理研究，包括全球板块运动建模、处理和分析地震反射和折射数据以及分析古地磁数据。具体设备将包括4个具有扩展内存和磁盘存储的高端超声波1工作站、4个低端Sparc5工作站、1台用于图形处理的Macintosh Power PC计算机、Western Omega的3-D地震处理软件和额外的外围设备。该系统将使NUVEL-1全球板块运动模型得以继续发展，该模型需要对海洋地球物理和地震数据进行广泛的分析和反演，并对甚长基线干涉测量数据进行分析。这一模式的继续发展和完善将引起对活动构造过程感兴趣的地球科学界的极大兴趣。将利用这一分布式计算机网络进行的其他研究将包括对板块边缘和山带的结构和构造进行地震调查，其中包括圣安德烈亚斯系统、盆地和山脉省、门多西诺三重结点和阿拉斯加的布鲁克斯山脉，以及大陆岩石圈裂解的地球动力学模拟。***

9632364 Gordon This grant provides $91,581 as one-half support of the costs of acquiring hardware and software to upgrade Rice University's Department of Geology and Geophysics computer system used for geophysical research including global plate motion modeling, processing and analyzing seismic reflection and refraction data and analyses of paleomagnetic data. Specific equipment will include 4 high-end Ultrasparc1 workstations with expanded memory and disk storage, 4 lower end Sparc5 workstations, 1 Macintosh Power PC computer for graphics, Western Omega's 3-D seismic processing software and additional peripherals. This system will allow continued development of the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model which requires extensive analyses and inversion of marine geophysical and seismological data together with analyses of very- long baseline interferometery (VLBI)data. The continued development and refinement of this model will be os significant worldwide interest to the geoscientific community with interests in active tectonic processes. Additional research that will; be conducted using this distributed network of computers will include seismic investigation of the structure and tectonics of plate margins and mountain belts including the San Andreas system, the Basin and Range Province, the Mendocino Triple Junction and the Brooks Range of Alaska and geodynamic modeling of the rifting of continental lithosphere. ***