Acquisition of a High Performance Shared-Memory Computer for Computational Science and Engineering at the University of New Mexico

在郭华博士的指导下，新墨西哥大学获得了一笔拨款，以部分支持新墨西哥大学（UNM）为计算科学与工程购置一台高性能共享内存计算机。这笔拨款将用于购买和维护一台最先进的超级计算机，以满足新墨西哥大学的研究和教育需求。新设备将被安置在新墨西哥大学的高性能计算中心，全校师生都可以使用。这种设备将大大提高多个研究小组的计算能力，使他们能够解决新的和更具挑战性的问题，特别是在生物相关领域。它还将通过为学生提供新的研究机会，大大改善高性能计算领域的研究生和本科生培训。在新墨西哥大学，有一群不同的研究人员从事物理、化学、生物和计算机科学领域的计算密集型高级研究项目。除了这些传统的研究领域之外，跨学科合作解决系统生物学和纳米技术中的复杂问题的趋势也在不断增长。本提案中描述的研究包括跨越传统部门界限的生物动机研究项目，如计算生物物理学和生物化学，系统发育学和虚拟药物筛选，以及材料科学和复杂系统的量子控制方面的工作。此外，高性能计算的教育项目将与几个领域的研究紧密结合，以充分利用这些设备。这台仪器的获得将对这所少数民族大学的研究和教育项目产生广泛而积极的影响。

A grant has been awarded to the University of New Mexico under the direction of Dr. Hua Guo for partial support of the acquisition of a high performance shared-memory computer for computational science and engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). This grant will be used to purchase and maintain a state-of-the-art supercomputer to meet the research and educational needs at UNM. The new equipment will be housed at UNM's High Performance Computing Center, accessible by all faculty and students on campus. This equipment will greatly enhance the computational capabilities of multiple research groups-enabling them to tackle new and more challenging problems, particularly in bio-related areas. It will also substantially improve graduate and undergraduate training in the area of high performance computing by providing new research opportunities for students.At the University of New Mexico, there exists a diverse group of investigators engaged in computationally intensive advanced research projects in physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. In addition to these traditional domains of research, there is a growing trend towards interdisciplinary collaborations to address complex problems in systems biology and nanotechnology. The research described in this proposal includes biologically-motivated research projects that span conventional departmental boundaries such as computational biophysics and biochemistry, phylogenetics, and virtual drug screening, as well as work in materials science and the quantum control of complex systems. In addition, education programs in high performance computing will be closely integrated with research in several areas to take advantage of the equipment. The acquisition of this instrument will have a broad and positive impact on the research and education programs at this minority-serving University.