Algorithms research group design & development laboratory

所要求的设备为算法研究小组（ARG）成员及其高素质人员（研究生和博士后研究员）的组合算法的设计和开发提供必要的高性能计算支持。ARG由w.f. Smyth于1997年创立，旨在鼓励和促进麦克马斯特研究人员，特别是初级研究人员和HQP在组合算法方面的工作。今天，ARG有18个正式成员和大约50名HQP。它定期举办一系列研讨会，邀请了许多世界级的研究人员；2005年，它发起并共同主办了法加组合算法研讨会，这是一个吸引了来自12个国家的约75名研究人员参加的新会议；通过促进合作和思想交流，它对其成员和合作者的研究成果作出了重大贡献；它的活动吸引了一流的数学和计算机专业的学生来到麦克马斯特大学。组合算法在商业、制造业、工业、科学研究、数据挖掘、计算生物学以及信息技术和计算机工程的各个方面都有成千上万的应用。正如本提案中详细介绍的那样，申请人设计的许多算法都有很大的空间和/或时间要求，只能通过所请求的高级共享内存多处理器服务器的能力来满足。同时，需要对在ARG设计开发实验室工作的由ARG成员监督的HQP的算法设计开发要求作出规定；他们的处理需求将由提议的高端桌面工作站网格来满足。

The requested equipment provides essential high-performance computational support for the design & development of combinatorial algorithms by members of the Algorithms Research Group (ARG) and their Highly Qualified Personnel (graduate students & post-doctoral fellows). ARG was founded in 1997 by W. F. Smyth to encourage and promote the work of McMaster researchers, especially junior researchers and HQP, in combinatorial algorithms.  Today ARG has 18 full members with about 50 HQP.  It hosts a regular seminar series that has featured many world-class researchers; in 2005 it initiated and cohosted the Franco-Canadian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, a new conference that attracted about 75 researchers from a dozen countries; by fostering collaboration and exchange of ideas, it has contributed significantly to the research accomplishments of its members and collaborators; its activities attract first-class students of mathematics and computing to McMaster University. Combinatorial algorithms have literally thousands of applications in business, manufacturing, industry, scientific research, data mining, computational biology, and all aspects of information technology and computer engineering.  As detailed in this proposal, many of the algorithms designed by the applicants have large space and/or time requirements that can only be met by the capabilities of the advanced shared-memory multi-processor server that has been requested.  At the same time, provision needs to be made for the algorithmic design & development requirements of HQP who are  supervised by ARG members and working in the ARG Design & Development Laboratory; their processing needs will be met by the proposed grid of high-end desk-top workstations.