A Distributed, High Performance Computing System for the Applied Sciences

主要研究人员将获得用于结构生物学，材料科学和环境/海洋科学计算研究的专用仪器。研究人员还领导了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的本科研究生计算科学课程，该课程将受益于拟议的仪器。拟议的设备包括Linux工作站集群、两台用于并行编程开发和教育的16处理器Beowulf级机器以及一台下一代中型共享内存机器|48处理器的SGI Origin 3000。这三个组成部分将使用校园光纤集成，共享文件和处理系统，在六个部门（化学，计算机科学，环境科学和工程，海洋科学，数学，统计）和海洋科学研究所（IMS）之间具有一致的配置和可移植性。高端生产工作将继续在附近的北卡罗来纳州超级计算中心完成，该中心包括一个拥有180个节点和720个处理器的tera op IBM SP系统。拟议的仪器，沿着与NCSC设施，将产生一个高性能的计算环境，跨学科的计算科学研究和教育计划在UNC-CH。

The Principal Investigators will acquire dedicated instrumentation for computational research in structural biology, material science, and environmental/marine sciences. The investigators also lead the undergraduate & graduate computational science curricula at UNC-Chapel Hill, which will benefit from the proposed instrumentation. The proposed equipment includes clusters of linux workstations, two 16-processor beowulf-class machines for parallel programming development and education, and a next generation mid-sized shared memory machine|a 48 processor SGI Origin 3000. These three components will be integrated using campus optical fiber, and shared file and processing systems, with consistent configuration and portability across the six departments (Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Marine Science, Mathematics, Statistics) and the Institute for Marine Sciences (IMS). High-end production work will continue to be accomplished at the nearby North Carolina Supercomputing Center, which include a tera op IBM SP system with 180 nodes and 720 processors. The proposed instrumentation, along with the NCSC facility, will yield a high-performance computational environment for the interdisciplinary computational science research and education program at UNC-CH.