NSCU NeXTLab

NSCU NeXT实验室

• 批准号: 9051325
• 负责人: Steven Businger
• 金额: $ 9.6万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-09-15 至 1993-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9051325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSCU; NeXTLab

NeXTLab, a computer laboratory in the department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University (NCSU), is designed to facilitate the teaching of fundamental scientific principles to undergraduate students. NeXTLab (consisting of a network of 12 NeXT User workstations and 2 NeXTLab Servers) will utilize the latest generation of workstation technology, one that combines remarkable computer power, affordability, and a user-friendly interface. Applications in which NeXTLab's technology excels include:i) Animation (high-resolution postscript display) to show the time evolution of weather systems ozone depletion, pollution dispersion, beach erosion, etc; ii) Digital signal processing (dedicated chip) to teach turbulent time series analysis, and atmospheric remote sensing, etc; iii) Mass storage (660 MB hard disk, 256 MB read/write optical disk) a prerequisite for animation and signal processing, as well as for applications that rely on large data bases (eg., global warming, ozone depletion, numerical model output). NeXTLab's innovative programming environment allows software developers to create a graphical user-friendly interface for educational applications (generally the most time-consuming part) without any programming| Educational applications will be made available nationally and publicized through journal articles to promote the innovative use of computer workstations in teaching science in undergraduate classrooms and laboratory settings. Support from UNIDATA ( a national NSF funded program to distribute "real time" meteorological data sets) and a new building facility at NCSU makes this an opportune time to proceed with development of NeXTLab.

NeXTLab 是北卡罗来纳州立大学 (NCSU) 海洋、地球和大气科学系的一个计算机实验室，旨在促进本科生基本科学原理的教学。 NeXTLab（由 12 个 NeXT 用户工作站和 2 个 NeXTLab 服务器组成的网络）将利用最新一代的工作站技术，该技术结合了卓越的计算机能力、经济性和用户友好的界面。 NeXTLab 技术擅长的应用包括： i) 动画（高分辨率后记显示），以显示天气系统臭氧消耗、污染扩散、海滩侵蚀等随时间的演变； ii) 数字信号处理（专用芯片），用于教授湍流时间序列分析、大气遥感等； iii) 海量存储（660 MB 硬盘、256 MB 读/写光盘）是动画和信号处理以及依赖大型数据库的应用程序（例如全球变暖、臭氧消耗、数值模型输出）的先决条件）。 NeXTLab的创新编程环境允许软件开发人员无需任何编程即可为教育应用程序（通常是最耗时的部分）创建用户友好的图形界面| 教育应用程序将在全国范围内提供，并通过期刊文章进行宣传，以促进计算机工作站在本科生课堂和实验室环境中科学教学中的创新使用。 UNIDATA（一项国家 NSF 资助的分发“实时”气象数据集的计划）和 NCSU 的新建筑设施的支持，使现在成为继续开发 NeXTLab 的最佳时机。