Acquisition of a High Performance Parallel Computer: Multi-Disciplinary Need to Advance Computing in Engineering

该项目为德雷克塞尔大学工程学院购买高端并行处理计算机提供支持。这个并行计算平台将支持跨学科的研究需求，在单个工作站或过载的网络服务器上执行具有挑战性的数值计算。并行计算服务器将提供共享内存计算环境，处理器之间具有低延迟、高带宽通信。它具有许多优点，包括：技术稳定，支持人员最少，可伸缩性，广泛的开发环境，将程序转换为并行的软件工具，以及相对于大规模并行系统的低成本。高性能的并行服务器将有利于计算流体力学、计算力学、材料加工、微结构发展、动态优化、普遍疲劳损伤、通信、人口贩运、计算机体系结构建模和人口动力学等研究项目。研究人员可以解决更大的问题，可以更快地解决计算密集型问题。这是MRI计划支持的一项设备拨款。

This project provides support for acquisition of high-end parallel processing computer for the college of Engineering at Drexel University.This parallel computing platform will support cross-disciplinary research needs in performing challenging numerical computations on single workstations or overloaded network servers. The parallel computing server will provide a shared memory computing environment with low-latency, high bandwidth communication between processors. It has many advantages including: a stable technology, minimum required support personnel, scalability, an extensive development environment, software tools for converting programs to parallel, and low cost relative to massivey parallel systems. It would enable quick startup of the parallel machine and rapid transition of current computational models to the parallel platform.The high-performance parallel server will benefit research programs in computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, materials processing, microstructure development, dynamic optimization, widespread fatigue damage, communications, trafficking, computer architecture modeling, and population dynamics. Researchers can solve larger problems and can solve computationally intensive problems more rapidly.This is an equipment grant supported under MRI program.