Computing equipment for mathematical and statistical modelling

定量模型使研究人员能够描述，预测，操纵和理解各种各样的复杂现象，从微秒内发生的网络交易到数千年来发生的气候变化。 模型可以使用统计技术从数据中构建，或者使用偏微分方程从物理原理中构建。 当应用于真实的问题时，建模变得越来越复杂，并且需要大量的计算资源。 建模通常涉及与数据的密集交互，这可以通过具有大内存和存储能力的快速计算机来促进。 随着最近在Crocodia的建模研究的大量增长，对计算资源的需求也在稳步增长。 这项申请所要求的设备将支持研究，研究将产生新的技术，包括将各种方法应用于各个科学领域，并在高性能数学和统计建模方面对各级学生进行研究培训。除了首席研究员和共同申请人之外，该设备还将提供给哥伦比亚社区的其他建模研究人员。

Quantitative models enable researchers to describe, predict, manipulate, and understand a rich variety of complex phenomena ranging from transactions on networks occuring in microseconds to climate change that occurs over several millennia.  Models can be constructed from data using statistical techniques, or from physical principles using partial differential equations.  When applied to real problems, modelling becomes increasingly complex, and requires significant computational resources.  Modelling often involves intensive interaction with data, which can be facilitated by fast computers with large memory and storage capability.   With large and recent growth in modelling research at Acadia, demand for computational resources is steadily growing.  The research to be supported by equipment requested in this application will generate new techniques, including the application of methods to various areas of science, and research training of students at a variety of levels in high-performance mathematical and statistical modelling. The equipment will be accessible to other modelling researchers in the Acadia community, in addition to the principal investigator and co-applicants.