Computing facility

数学和统计系的研究计算设施有几个HP UNIX工作站和PC，被教师，博士后，研究生和访问研究人员大量使用。这是非常缓慢的，有时不可能运行复杂的研究程序，如随机模拟，模拟退火算法等，要求资金购买一个Linux集群和几台PC。 Linux集群将加快复杂研究程序的计算速度，并使一些研究项目成为可能，PC将被放置在研究生办公室，以便他们可以访问Linux集群。统计组和应用数学组的所有成员（教师、博士后、研究生和访问者）都可以访问Linux集群。使用该设施的小组成员目前正在进行的研究领域包括：生物统计学、生物信息学、稳健统计学、生存分析、贝叶斯模型确定、捕获-再捕获方法、空间马尔可夫过程、经验似然性、森林火灾危险估计、医疗和工业应用、通过EM算法进行参数估计、热带环流模型、气候建模、公共卫生研究和疾病控制。

The research computing facility of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has several HP UNIX workstations and PCs which are heavily used by faculty, post-docs, graduate students and visiting researchers. It is very slow and sometimes impossible to run complicated research programs such as stochastic simulations, simulated annealing algorithms, and etc. The request is for funding to purchase a Linux Cluster and several PCs.  The Linux Cluster will speed up the computation for complicated research programs and make some research projects possible, and the PCs will be placed in graduate students' offices so that they have access to the Linux Cluster. All members of the Statistics group and Applied Mathematics group (faculty, post-docs, graduate students and visitors) will have access to the Linux Cluster. Research  areas currently being undertaken by members of the groups using the facility include: biostatistics, bioinformatics, robust statistics, survival analysis, Bayesian model determination, capture-recapture methods, Spatial Markov processes, empirical likelihood, estimation of forest fire hazards, medical and industrial applications, parameter estimation via EM algorithm, tropical circulation model, climate modeling, public health studies and disease control.