Mathematical Sciences Scientific Computing Research Environments

摘要：莱斯大学计算与应用数学系将购买一台8处理器分布式共享内存SGI Origin2000 DS和一台SGI O2工作站，用于支持数学科学研究。该设备将用于几个研究项目，特别是：偏微分方程控制的关联子系统的优化（Matthias Heinkenschloss），固体微结构热力学计算的高级数值方法（Petr Kloucek），全球最小二乘数据拟合算法及其在计算生物学中的应用研究（张银）。这些项目涉及计算密集型，大规模数值模拟和材料，生物学和工程过程和系统的优化。

ABSTRACT:The Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University will purchase an eight processor distributed shared memory SGI Origin2000 DS and an SGI O2 Workstation which will be dedicated to the support of research in the mathematical sciences. The equipment will be used for several research projects, including in particular: Optimization of Linked Subsystems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (Matthias Heinkenschloss), Advanced Numerical Methods for Computation of Thermodynamics of Microstructures in Solids (Petr Kloucek), Research on Global Least-Squares Data-Fitting Algorithms with Applications to Computational Biology (Yin Zhang). These projects involve computationally intensive, large scale numerical simulations and optimization of processes and systems in materials, biology, and engineering.