MRI: Parallel Computing Environment for Computational Mathematics

提案编号DMS-0215942 pi: St. John, Baumslag， Cleary和Rouson。摘要本项目是纽约城市大学（CUNY）多个部门和多个机构成员的合作成果。该小组的成员包括纽约市立大学数学系、计算机科学系和机械工程系；纽约市立大学雷曼学院数学与计算机科学系、纽约市立大学研究生中心计算机科学系、纽约市立大学研究生中心数学系。作为计划活动中心的研究工具是一个大型贝奥武夫计算集群，位于城市学院。计划进行的研究项目包括组合群论中的遗传算法、计算生物学中的进化树重建、自由群的计算机实验、燃烧早期湍流流动的建模，以及计算机网络中的问题和模拟。该集群将由城市学院的算法和交互科学软件中心（CAISS）管理。这个集群还将为纽约市立大学的本科生和研究生提供重要的资源，通过提供通常在本科学院无法获得的计算能力。研究课题涵盖了广泛的计算机科学、计算科学和数学。它们的共同方法是实验和理论相结合，依赖于计算资源的开发。

Proposal Numer DMS-0215942 PIs: St. John, Baumslag, Cleary, and Rouson.ABSTRACTThis project is a collaborative effort among members of several Departments and multiple institutions, all parts of the City University of New York (CUNY). The group effort includes the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Computer Science,and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City College ofCUNY; the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, LehmanCollege of CUNY, the Department of Computer Science of theGraduate Center of CUNY, and the Department of Mathematics ofthe Graduate Center of CUNY. The research tool that serves asthe hub for the planned activity is a large Beowulf computationalcluster, to be housed at City College.The planned research projects are genetic algorithms incombinatorial group theory, evolutionary tree reconstruction incomputational biology, computer experiments on parafree groups,modelling turbulent fluid flows arising in the early stages ofcombustion, and questions and simulations in computer networking.The cluster will be administered under the Center for Algorithmsand Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS) at City College. Thiscluster will also provide an important resource for theundergraduate and graduate students of CUNY, by giving accessto computing power not usually found at primarily undergraduatecolleges. The research topics span a wide range of computer science, computational science, and mathematics. They share the common approach of involving both experiments and theory, relying on exploitation of computational resources.