MRI: Acquisition of a Linux Cluster to Fulfill High Performance Computing Needs Within Engineering and Science

建议没有。主要研究者：Patrick a . Tebbe，明尼苏达州立大学曼卡托分校：收购Linux集群以满足工程和科学领域的高性能计算需求。这项主要研究仪器拨款将改善明尼苏达州立大学曼卡托分校（MSU）机械与土木工程系（MECE）和计算机与信息科学系（CIS）的计算基础设施。将获得一个Linux计算机集群，该集群具有促进正在进行的研究、课程和培训活动所需的内存和架构属性。为在分布式处理器系统上使用而优化的工程软件也被要求允许该系统被充分利用于工程研究和教育。这些设备和软件将直接支持三个具有关键计算需求的研究项目：1)物理蒸汽传输中的瞬态和三维效应研究，2)语音识别的语言特征，以及3)统计披露评估。这些主题目前都受到缺乏高性能计算（HPC）基础设施的限制。该项目的总体广泛影响将是增加高性能计算在工程和科学学生的研究和教育经验，并提高密歇根州立大学教师的研究潜力。获得所描述的资源将使这些和未来的研究项目向前发展，同时帮助该机构实现其教育目标。该设备将在两个系的众多本科和研究生课程中使用。此外，基于这些研究主题和该设备，将创建一个新的高性能计算跨学科研讨会课程。通过这次研讨会和众多相关课程，本科生和研究生将接触到高性能计算，并训练其在研究中的应用。将对其他校园教员进行外展和培训，以增加该系统的潜在研究和课堂用户的数量。密歇根州立大学是非博士学位。最近还获得了明尼苏达州200万美元的拨款，用于建立制造与工程卓越中心。该中心将密歇根州立大学与5所技术或社区学院以及一个州高等教育区合作。随着与K-12和行业建立伙伴关系的目标，这是一个独特的机会，可以将该提案与中心的工作相结合。此外，包括几所大学、一所国际大学、美国宇航局和一家小公司在内的许多外部实体将作为这些项目的研究合作者参与其中。

Proposal No. CTS-0619641Principal Investigator: Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, MankatoMRI: Acquisition of a Linux Cluster to Fulfill High Performance Computing Needs Within Engineering and Science This Major Research Instrumentation grant will improve the computational infrastructure of the Departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (MECE) and Computer and Information Science (CIS), at Minnesota State University Mankato (MSU). A Linux computer cluster will be acquired with the memory and architecture properties required to facilitate ongoing research, course, and training activities. Engineering software that has been optimized for use on a distributed processor system is also requested to allow the system to be fully utilized for engineering research and education. The equipment and software will directly support three research projects with critical computational needs: 1) Study of Transient and Three-dimensional Effects in Physical Vapor Transport, 2) Linguistic Features for Speech Recognition, and 3) Statistical Disclosure Assessment. Each of these topics is currently restricted by a lack of high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The overarching broad impact of this project will be to increase high-performance computing in the research and educational experiences of engineering and science students and enhance the research potential of faculty at MSU. Acquisition of the resources described will enable these and future research projects to move forward while aiding the institution in meeting its educational goals. The equipment will be used in numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in both departments. In addition, a new cross-disciplinary Seminar in High Performance Computing course will be created based on these research topics and this equipment. Through this seminar and the numerous affected courses, undergraduate and graduate students will be exposed to high performance computing and trained for its use in research. Outreach and training of other campus faculty will be conducted in order to increase the number of potential research and classroom users of the system. MSU is a non-Ph.D. granting institution and the recent recipient of a $2 million grant from the State of Minnesota to establish a Center of Excellence in Manufacturing and Engineering. The Center partners MSU with 5 technical or community colleges and one state Higher Education District. With the objectives of building partnerships with K-12 and industry, a unique opportunity exists to leverage this proposal with the Center's work. In addition, numerous external entities including several universities, an international university, NASA, and a small company will be involved as research collaborators with these projects.