MRI: Acquisition of a GPU-Based Cloud Infrastructure for Inter-/Multi-Disciplinary Research and Education at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution

本项目通过获取设备建立基于gpu的云，旨在实现与大数据相关的跨学科项目，特别是计算机科学、大规模医疗数据、计算化学、地质等领域的协同研究项目。其中包括：智能物联网（IoT）、智能健康、空间计算和计算化学。智能物联网研究将利用基础设施开发新的深度学习模型，为视障人士实现智能生活和导航。大数据丰富的健康研究期望找到有效的解决方案，以解决肥胖和非传染性慢性疾病的问题，严重威胁美国和全球的公共健康，使用仪器计算具有大量健康数据的模型。地球科学研究将使“美国空间数据门户”（ASDP）的建立成为可能，该门户将提供空间数据的中央存储库，以加快地理空间数据挖掘和应用的研究。将在该仪器上开发云地理空间教育系统，以改变国家的地球科学教育。计算化学研究将利用云的计算能力来发现、设计和评估新的低成本催化剂，用于重要的化学反应，这可能会显著改变世界的生活。这种基于gpu的云预计将促进跨多个学科的数据和计算密集型研究进展，不仅在这所主要的本科大学，而且在其他机构通过授权和计划的远程访问。此外，基础设施将通过高速互联网共享给国内的其他同事，以及感兴趣的国际合作者。更广泛的影响：通过让学生参与安装、配置和仪器的活动，该项目将为培养未来的科学家、工程师和仪器学家提供宝贵的机会。新开发的交叉列表课程和暑期培训项目将培训数百名GPU和大数据相关知识和技能的大四和研究生。此外，由于调查人员能够提供适当的指导，所有学生和少数民族都能从中受益。

This project, acquiring equipment to establish a GPU-based cloud, aims to enable big data related interdisciplinary projects, specifically collaborative research projects in computer science, large-scale medical data, computational chemistry, and geology. These include:- Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT),- Smart Health,- Spatial Computing, and - Computational ChemistryThe intelligent IOT research would utilize the infrastructure to develop new deep learning models to enable smart living and navigation for vision impaired people. The big data enriched health research expects to find effective solutions to solve problems of obesity and non-communicable chronic diseases, serious threats to public health in the US and globally, using the instrumentation to compute the models with enormous health data. The geoscience research would enabled the establishment of "American Spatial Data Portal" (ASDP) that will provide a central repository of spatial data to expedite research on geospatial data mining and applications. A cloud geospatial education system would be developed on the instrument to transform the nation's geoscience education. The computational chemistry research would take advantage of the computation capability of the cloud to discover, design, and evaluate new and low costs catalysts for important chemical reactions, which could significantly change the life of the world. This GPU-based cloud is expected to facilitate the data and computation intensive research progress across many disciplines not only at this mainly undergraduate university, but also at other institutions through authorized and scheduled remote access. Furthermore, the infrastructure would be shared via high speed internet to other colleagues in the nation, and to international collaborators who are interested. Broader Impacts: By involving students in the activities of installation, configuration, and instrumentation, this project would provide valuable opportunities to train future scientists, engineers, and instrumentalists. The developed new cross-list courses and summer training program would train hundreds of both senior and graduate students on GPU and big data related knowledge and skills. Moreover, due to the appropriate mentoring that the investigators are able to offer, overall students and minorities can benefit.