Acquisition of computing environment for geophysical research at Northwestern's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

0847951van der Lee该提案寻求约7.5万美元的资金，用于购买用于数据存储、数据分析、网络和计算科学的升级计算设备。设备将在西北大学地球和行星科学系使用。这些设备将用于更新研究人员、博士后和学生使用的计算骨干，并将纳入课程和外联活动。大会部目前有各种不同的系统和服务器。所要求的升级将使计算和储存系统与现代化的设备相统一。所要求的计算设备将被纳入地震学、构造学、层析成像、行星科学和地球内部物理学等学科。主要研究员概述了具体项目，包括俯冲带的热扰动地球物理效应和相位关系、应力场和浮力分析、行星内部结构分析、地外行星构造和岩浆分析、地震海啸耦合和位错建模、板块边界变形建模和分析、地震危险评估、利用全球定位系统和地震数据进行的板块运动研究、地震数据库分析，用于建模和可视化，以及开发和验证层析模型。升级后的计算机网络不仅将提高研究能力，而且将支持本科生和研究生的研究，并通过网站和服务托管服务，帮助为社区服务。升级后的系统将支持地震和海啸预测方面的社会相关研究。

0847951van der LeeThis proposal seeks ~$75K funding to purchase upgraded computing equipment for data storage, data analysis, networking and computational science. Equipment will be utilized in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern. The equipment will be used to update the computing backbone utilized by researchers, post-docs, and students and will be incorporated into course offerings and outreach activities. The Department currently has a heterogeneous mix of individual systems and servers. The requested upgrade would unify the computing and storage systems with modern capable equipment. The requested computing equipment will be incorporated into disciplines ranging from seismology, tectonics, tomography, planetary science and Earth interior geophysics. Specific projects are outlined by the PIs and include thermal perturbation geophysical effects and phase relations in subduction zones, stress field and buoyancy force analyses, planetary interior structure analyses, extra-terrestrial planetary tectonics and magmetic analyses, seismic-tsunami coupling and dislocation modeling, plate boundary deformation modeling and analysis, seismic hazard assessments, plate movement studies using GPS and earthquake data, seismic data bank analysis for modeling and visualization, and developing and validating tomographic models. The upgraded computer network will not only allow greater research capabilities, but will support undergraduate and graduate research and through web site and service hosting, will help serve the community. The upgraded systems will support societally-relevant research in earthquake and tsunami prediction.***