CC*: Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum: Campus Cluster Resource: Expanded High Performance Computing at Wayne State

韦恩州立大学在研究计算方面进行了投资，包括建设一个新的数据中心，部署覆盖全球的高速网络，以及全球可访问数据的海量存储。该NSF CC*项目通过增加六个高速多处理器系统来增加现有的高性能计算资源，每个系统具有1.5TB和3个NVIDIA图形处理单元(GPU)，每个系统具有高达120万亿次计算的大容量内存。过去需要几个月的模拟可以在几天内完成，从而加快了许多领域的研究，并扩大了该大学275个研究团队和1500个独立用户的资源，其中1000个是学生。这种新设备的影响涉及多个学科，包括计算化学、膜生物物理学、分子动力学、复合材料以及研究核物质及其各个阶段的开创性工作。对相对论重离子碰撞在合理的壁面时间内产生夸克胶子等离子体的建模超出了旧硬件的能力，但使用新系统可以进行这样的模拟，并有助于揭示强耦合系统和揭示早期宇宙的本质。图形处理器具有称为张量流核心的特殊功能，特别用于人工智能、深度学习和分析。这些都加强了对城市和环境健康的研究。图形处理器也有利于韦恩州立大学新的数据科学硕士工程、计算机科学和商业学院联合项目的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Wayne State University has made investments in research computing including construction of a new data center, deployment of high-speed networks with global reach, and massive storage for globally accessible data. This NSF CC* project augments those existing high-performance computing resources through the addition of six high-speed, multiprocessor systems with a large amount of memory each with 1.5 terabytes and 3 NVIDIA graphic processing units (GPUs) capable of up to 120 trillion calculations per second in each system. Simulations that used to take months can be completed in days, thereby speeding research in many areas and expanding resources for the University's 275 research teams and 1,500 unique users of which 1,000 are students. The impact of this new equipment spreads across multiple disciplines including Computational Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics, Molecular Dynamics, Complex Materials and ground-breaking work in the study of Nuclear Matter and its various phases. Modeling relativistic heavy ion collisions that produce the Quark Gluon Plasma in reasonable wall times was beyond the capability of the old hardware, but with the new system such simulations can be made and help shed light on strongly coupled systems and inform the nature of the early Universe. The GPUs have special features called Tensor Flow Cores, of particular use in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Analytics. These augment research in urban and environmental health. The GPUs are also a boon for education in Wayne State's new Master of Science in Data Science joint program in Engineering, Computer Science and School of BusinessThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.