MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Compute Cluster for Multidisciplinary Research

根据这一重大研究仪器(MRI)项目，俄克拉荷马州立大学高性能计算中心(OSUHPCC)将购买、部署和维护一台名为CowBoy的HPC集群超级计算机，该计算机将支持各种科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的计算密集型研究和研究培训。作为一个校园范围的共享资源，牛仔不仅将提供给俄亥俄州立大学的所有教职员工、博士后、研究生和本科生，而且还将提供给俄克拉荷马州的研究人员。拟议的系统将通过协作研究团队来促进计算和数据支持的科学与工程(CDESE)研究的许多领域，根据迄今的经验，用户数量预计每12个月翻一番。项目包括：颗粒状材料的力学和核覆层材料的断裂模拟；犬髋关节发育不良的发现基因；多核心系统每瓦特性能的改进；成年和胚胎小鼠干细胞系决定事件的转录图谱；基因组、元基因组和蛋白质组方法，以破译宿主-病原体相互作用、复杂的碳水化合物代谢和细胞生物能源；地球物理流体模拟；计算化学；纳米结构材料的模拟；碳纳米管生长的模拟；气相和凝聚相材料的模拟；表面地质的地震表征；计算优化；最佳差错控制编码和压缩传感技术；电荷、自旋和热传输；星座科的分子系统学；这些研究包括：禾本科(Poaceae)和芥菜(Brassicaceae)形态多样化和驯化的进化遗传学；稳健的电磁场测试；极端嗜热红藻Galdieria Suluraria的系统发育分析；不断演变的社会网络中的数据整合；交换代数的计算和组合方法；与非栽培和栽培植物有关的微生物；强度调制放射治疗规划软件；以及黄花菜(Asclepias和罗布麻科)的系统基因组学。俄克拉荷马州的用户分布在24所院校，包括俄克拉荷马州13所公立大学中的11所。俄克拉荷马州超级计算研讨会(MRI Pi Brunson是2011年会议联席主席)是EPSCoR辖区每年举行的唯一一次此类活动，8年来已有来自24个州和波多黎各(包括俄克拉荷马州33个，其他12个EPSCoR辖区26个)的92个学术机构、97家私营公司、31个政府机构和14个非营利组织的2000多名与会者。该项目包括7名女性高级人员，她们作为榜样，正在引起人们对计算科学和工程的兴趣和兴奋。该项目还包括俄克拉何马州历史上唯一的黑人大学兰斯顿大学的两名研究人员的参与。研究项目包括80名研究生和29名本科生，其中包括29名女性，一名非裔美国人，三名美洲原住民和三名拉美裔美国人。

Under this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) project, Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center (OSUHPCC) will acquire, deploy and maintain an HPC cluster supercomputer, to be named Cowboy, that will support computing-intensive research and research training across a broad variety of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As a campus-wide shared resource, Cowboy will be available not only to all of OSU's faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates, but to researchers across Oklahoma.Many areas of Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDESE) research will be facilitated by the proposed system by collaborating research teams with an expected doubling of the number of users every 12 months based on experience to date. Projects include: mechanics of granular materials and fracture simulations in nuclear clad materials; discovery genes for canine hip dysplasia; improvements to performance per Watt of many-core systems; transcriptional profiling of determination events in adult and embryonic murine stem cell lines; genomic, metagenomic and proteomic approaches to decipher host- pathogen interactions, complex carbohydrate metabolism and cellulosic bioenergy; modeling geophysical fluids; computational chemistry; simulations of nanostructured materials; simulation of the growth of carbon nanotubes; simulating gas-phase and condensed-phase materials; seismic characterization of surface geology; computational optimization; optimal error-control coding and compressive sensing techniques; charge, spin and heat transport; molecular phylogeny of the Asteraceae; evolutionary genetics of morphological diversification and domestication in grasses (Poaceae) and mustards (Brassicaceae); robust electromagnetic field testing; phylogenomic analyses of the extremophile red alga Galdieria sulphuraria; integrating data in evolving social networks; computational and combinatorial methods in commutative algebra; microbes associated with non-cultivated and cultivated plants; intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning software; and phylogenomics of milkweeds (Asclepias, Apocynaceae). Oklahoma users are at 24 institutions, including 11 of Oklahoma's 13 public universities. The Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium (MRI PI Brunson is 2011 Conference Co-Chair), the only event of its kind held annually in an EPSCoR jurisdiction, in 8 years has had over 2000 attendees from 92 academic institutions in 24 states and Puerto Rico (including 33 in Oklahoma and 26 in 12 other EPSCoR jurisdictions), 97 private companies, 31 government agencies and 14 nonprofits. This project includes seven women senior personnel who serve as role models and are creating interest and excitement about computational science and engineering. This project also includes participation of two researchers at Langston University, Oklahoma's sole Historically Black University. Research projects include 80 graduate students and 29 undergraduates, including 29 women, an African American, three Native Americans and three Hispanics.