MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Data Intensive Supercomputer for Innovative and Transformative Research in Science and Engineering

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-恢复和再投资（MRI-R2）奖资助布法罗大学购置数据密集型超级计算机（DISC）。这台超级计算机为参与广泛创新研究和教育活动的大约250个直接用户提供变革性的计算和数据处理能力。大量的计算能力、大内存和快速存储被用来推进全国超过45个研究小组的直接科学目标。DISC支持的研究范围可以分为三大主题：(i)数据密集型计算、聚类和数据挖掘；（ii）仿真分析，以及（iii）通过数据分析进行的新型实时仿真。围绕新的超级计算基础设施建立了一个充满活力的多学科社区。利用新系统的课程、教程和研讨会旨在吸引纽约西部地区和全国的本科生、研究生、博士后研究员、科学家和教师。项目团队在成功管理以高性能计算为中心的教育和扩展计划方面有着悠久的历史。许多现有的教育项目都受到此次收购的影响，包括：布法罗地区少数民族工程意识（BEAM）丰富项目，埃里克皮特曼计算科学年度夏季研讨会，以及布法罗的“市长下一代科学家计划”。由新设备促成的研究成果通过学生和教师在区域和国家会议上的发言以及在同行评议的期刊上发表的方式传播。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of Data Intensive Supercomputer (DISC) at the University of Buffalo. The supercomputer provides transformative computing and data processing capability to approximately 250 immediate users involved in a wide range of innovative research and education activities. The substantial compute power, large memory, and fast storage is utilized to advance the immediate scientific goals of over 45 research groups throughout the Nation. The spectrum of research enabled by DISC can be classified into three broad themes: (i) data intensive computing, clustering, and datamining; (ii) simulation analytics, and (iii) the novel real-time simulation by data analytics. A vibrant multidisciplinary community is built around the new supercomputing infrastructure. Classes, tutorials, and workshops utilizing the new system are designed to engage undergraduates, graduates, postdoctoral fellows, scientists, and faculty within the local western New York area and nationally. The project team has a long history of successfully administering educational and outreach programs centered around high-performance computing. Many existing educational programs are impacted by this acquisition including: the Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) enrichment program, the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science, and Buffalo's "Mayor's Next Generation Scientists Program." Results from the studies enabled by the new equipment are disseminated by student and faculty presentations at regional and national meetings, and through publication in peer-reviewed journals.