Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for Solar-Terrestrial Research

这一重大研究仪器奖是为了表彰为促进新汉普郡大学地球、海洋和空间研究所(EOS)日地物理研究而获得的高性能计算集群。计算设备将支持与地球空间环境建模计划和国家空间天气计划相关的研究。这些计划的主要挑战是通过太阳风对太阳上的日冕物质抛射的能量流进行建模，通过地球的磁层和电离层，最终导致极地地区的大气加热、电流和极光显示。拟议的设施将由高性能计算引擎、数据存储和归档硬件组成。其目标是开发一种用户友好的设施，供参与研究小组的资深科学家、博士后和研究生免费使用。该设施将加强对日地环境的模拟和建模，便利对来自多个实验方案的大量数据集的分析，并通过提供一个生成具有高统计数据的仪器模拟的平台，帮助确定现有和正在开发的仪器的特征。

This Major Research Instrumentation award is for the acquisition of a high performance computing cluster to facilitate the study of solar-terrestrial physics at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS). The computing equipment will support studies related to the Geospace Environment Modeling program and the National Space Weather Program. The primary challenge of these programs is to model the flow of energy from coronal mass ejections on the sun via the solar wind, through Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, ultimately resulting in atmospheric heating, electrical currents, and auroral displays over the polar regions. The proposed facility will consist of a high-performance compute engine, data storage, and archiving hardware. The goal is to develop a user-friendly facility freely available to senior scientists, postdocs, and graduates students within the participating research groups. The facility will enhance efforts to simulate and model the solar terrestrial environment, facility the analysis of large volume data sets from multiple experimental programs, and aid the characterization of existing and developing instrumentation by providing a platform for generating instrument simulations with high statistics.