Acquisition of a High Performance Computer System for the Center for Computational Geophysics

9977697SymesThis grant，made through the Major Research Instrumentation（MRI）Program，provides partial support of the costs of acquiring a high performance computer system for the Center for Computational Geophysics（CCG），Rice University. CCG将获得一个多CPU、共享内存、并行架构的服务器，用于各种计算机密集型地球物理研究项目，包括三维反射和折射勘探、地震学和地球动力学建模。 一些教职员工将使用这个最先进的计算平台。 William Symes（应用数学家）、Alan Levander（地震学家）和Richard Baraniuk（信号处理电气工程师）将主要参与开发用于大型三维地震数据集反演及其解释的改进计算算法。 其他教师和研究人员，包括理查德戈登，阿德里安Lenardic，朱莉娅摩根和戴尔索耶将利用该系统建模地球动力学过程。 具体的地球科学应用包括改进NUVEL-1全球板块运动模型、落基山脉根部的层析成像、绘制大陆边沉积和结构剖面、制作滑坡物理模型以及模拟大陆裂谷、海底扩张、地幔对流和板块运动的地球动力学。 ***

9977697SymesThis grant, made through the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, provides partial support of the costs of acquiring a high performance computer system for the Center for Computational Geophysics (CCG), Rice University. The CCG will obtain a multi-CPU, shared memory, parallel architecture server which will be used in a variety of computer intensive geophysical research programs including 3-D reflection and refraction exploration seismology and geodynamic modeling. A number of faculty members will make use this state-of-the-art computational platform. William Symes (applied mathematician), Alan Levander (seismologist) and Richard Baraniuk (signal processing electrical engineer) will largely be involved in development of improved computational algorithms for inversion of large 3-D seismic data sets and their interpretation. Additional faculty members and researchers including Richard Gordon, Adrian Lenardic, Julia Morgan and Dale Sawyer will make use of the system for modeling geodynamic processes. Specific geoscience applications include improvements to the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model, tomographic imaging of the roots of the Rocky Mountains, profiling continental margin sedimentation and structure, modeling the physics of landslides, and simulating the geodynamics of continental rifting, seafloor spreading, mantle convection and plate motions. ***