MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computer Cluster for The New York Botanical Garden

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该主要研究仪器（MRI）奖资助纽约植物园（NYBG）的高性能计算机集群的收购。 该集群将用于研究植物生物学中的各种主题，包括进化，基因功能，三维图像重建，生态系统功能和基于DNA的标本识别。 用计算机集群进行的分析将发表在同行评审的科学期刊上。 NYBG的计算机集群将广泛地影响各种各样的选区的研究：（1）NYBG和布朗克斯科学高中之间形成的实习计划，一所由少数民族背景的高天赋学生组成的学校，将为学生提供在实验室进行独立研究的机会。(2)研究生课程的质量将得到提高，因为学生将拥有更强大的数据分析选项，并将在当前技术方面得到更广泛的培训。(3)本科生和研究生将在雷曼学院（CUNY），一个主要的少数民族机构提供生物学计算方法的课程。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a high performance computer cluster at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The cluster will be used to study a wide variety of topics in plant biology including evolution, gene function, three-dimensional image reconstruction, ecosystem function, and DNA based specimen identification. The analyses conducted with the computer cluster will be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. A computer cluster at NYBG will broadly impact the research of a wide variety of constituencies: (1) An internship program formed between NYBG and the Bronx High School of Science, a school of highly gifted students from predominantly minority background, will give at students the opportunity to perform independent research in a laboratory. (2) The quality of the graduate program will improve as students will have a more powerful data analysis option and will be more broadly trained in current techniques. (3) Undergraduate and graduate students will be offered a class on Computational Methods in Biology at Lehman College (CUNY), a predominantly minority institution.