Upgrading of Infrastructure for Computational Geophysics

0421861戴维斯这笔赠款中的资金将用于支持塞西尔H. Ida M.地球物理学和行星物理学（IGPP）的绿色研究所，使学生，工作人员和教师的研究人员可以更好地研究一些许多现代地球物理问题，其分析需要大量数据集的计算密集型操作和可视化详细，复杂的结果图像的能力。 拟购买的资源将用于推进海洋地震方法研究、大洋中脊过程解释、全球地震学、地幔对流、地磁学、次声、空间大地测量学和其他科学项目。 计算集群和高性能工作站将为台式机无法解决的大问题提供强大的计算能力。 网络连接储存装置将促进以有效的方式分享共同的数据集，并为每个部门成员提供一个共同的工作目录，可从IGPP局域网上的所有机器以非常高的速度访问。 工作站将为研究生提供完成课堂练习和开始论文研究的工具。 总的来说，增加这些设备将简化IGPP局域网的管理，并使负担过重的IT专业人员能够集中精力从事更有成效的活动。 改善当地的基础设施将立即提供一个更可靠和稳定的渠道，使外部用户可以通过该渠道访问IGPP的几个设施，这些设施是其他部门或其他大学的科学家共享和/或访问的。 主要的例子包括IRIS/IDA地震数据收集中心、斯克里普斯轨道和永久阵列中心以及SIO可视化中心。 ***

0421861DavisFunds from this grant will support an upgrade to the general computing environment at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) so that students, staff and faculty researchers can better study some of the many modern geophysical problems whose analysis requires computationally intensive manipulation of large data sets and the capability to visualize detailed, complex images of the results. The resources to be purchased will be used to advance research in marine seismic methods, interpretation of mid-ocean ridge processes, global seismology, mantle convection, geomagnetism, infrasound, space geodesy, and other scientific projects. A compute cluster and high performance workstations will provide substantial computing power for problems too large to address with a desktop machine. A network attached storage device will promote sharing of common data sets in an efficient manner and provide each department member with a common working directory accessible at very high speed from all machines on the IGPP local area network (LAN). Workstations will provide graduate students with a tool to complete class exercises and initiate thesis research. Overall, addition of these devices will simplify administration of the IGPP LAN and allow overburdened IT professionals to concentrate their efforts on more productive activities. Improving the local infrastructure will immediately provide a more reliable and stable conduit through which outside users can access several facilities at IGPP that are shared and/or accessed by scientists in other departments or at other universities. Key examples include the IRIS/IDA seismic Data Collection Center, the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center, and the SIO Visualization Center. ***