MRI: Acquisition of a Blue Gene/L Supercomputer for Computational Science Research

该项目是计算科学领域的授权研究项目，旨在从IBM获得一台2048节点的BlueGene/L超级计算机。BlueGene/L是基于片上系统技术的高度集成的超级计算机，专注于基于数字的科学问题。这台新的超级计算机将使从亚核物理到生物工程、空间天气和海洋建模等领域的大量新颖、计算密集型研究成为可能。这些区域将为BlueGene/L在具体和多样化环境中的应用提供测试平台。调查将由波士顿大学、麻省理工学院和塔夫茨大学的研究人员进行。IBM的一位科学家（吉安·巴诺特）将与这些科学家合作，研究使用这台机器的光学技术。以下16个项目将利用该设施：亚核粒子现象的计算研究、凝聚态量子物质的计算研究、光子晶体、化学系统的量子动力学、过冷液体和生物分子的多时间尺度模拟的加速算法、液体和玻璃水的分子建模、材料强度的多尺度建模、调节网络的计算确定、自旋系统动力学和意见演变、制造企业复杂系统管理、流体力学拓扑问题计算研究、三维湍流大涡模拟模型、空间天气、电离层等离子体过程电动力学、海洋非流体静力直接数值模拟、Blue/Gene/ l优化计算与通信算法等。计算科学跨学科培训（ACES）的新项目将利用该设施。该资源将在广泛的基础上共享，并向国家研究界开放。

This project, empowering research projects in computational science, aims at acquiring a 2048-node BlueGene/L supercomputer from IBM. BlueGene/L is a highly integrated supercomputer based on system-on-a-chip technology focusing on numerically based scientific problems. The new supercomputer will enable a wide range of novel, computationally intensive research in areas ranging from subnuclear physics to bioengineering, space weather and ocean modeling. These areas will provide a test-bed for BlueGene/L applications in a concrete and diverse environment. The investigations will be carried out by researchers from Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. An IBM scientist (Gyan Bhanot) will collaborate with these scientists in the study of optical techniques to use the machine. The following sixteen projects will make use of the facility: Computational Investigations of Subnuclear Particle Phenomena, Computational Investigations of Condensed Quantum Matter, Photonic Crystals, Quantum Dynamics of Chemical Systems, Accelerated Algorithms for Multiple Time Scale Simulations of Supercooled Liquids and Biomolecules, Molecular Modeling of Liquid and Glassy Water, Multiscale Modeling of Materials Strength, Computational Determination of Regulatory Networks, Dynamics of Spin Systems and Opinion Evolution, Managing Complex Systems in Manufacturing Enterprise, Computational Investigations of Topological Issues in Hydrodynamics, Large Eddy Simulation Models for Three-Dimensional Turbulence, Space Weather, Electrodynamics of Plasma Processes in the Ionosphere, Non-Hydrostatic Direct Numerical Simulation of Oceans, and Algorithms for Optimized Computation and Communication of Blue/Gene/LBroader Impact: New programs in interdisciplinary training in computational science (ACES) will take advantage of the facility. The resource will be shared in a broad basis and open to the national research community.