Development of Computer Cluster for the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

麻省理工学院经济系计算机集群开发

• 批准号: 9512139
• 负责人: Whitney Newey
• 金额: $ 15.02万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Computer; Cluster; Department; Economics

With partial support from the National Science Foundation, the MIT Economics Department Computer Cluster will upgrade its computing facility. As a result of an explosion in the role of computation in economic research, the Department has reached the limits of existing hardware. To alleviate this situation, it will undertake a three part program to upgrade its current instrumentation. This includes: the purchase of a substantially upgraded departmental workstation and fileserver; the upgrading of PC facilities and increased connectivity of PCs in graduate student offices; purchase of an IBM RS/6000 workstation, a dedicated file server, and 10 gigabytes of additional disc space. Three groups of faculty members and their affiliated graduate students will be the primary beneficiaries of this upgrade. Many of these researchers are working on data-intensive empirical micro- and macro-economics questions; others employ simulation methods to solve problems in economic theory while a third group is engaged in developing new econometric tools. The expanded facilities will also benefit numbers of both graduate and undergraduate students and serve to further teaching as well as research.

在国家科学基金会的部分支持下，麻省理工学院经济系计算机集群将升级其计算设施。由于计算在经济研究中的作用激增，该系已经达到了现有硬件的极限。为了缓解这种情况，它将实施一个由三部分组成的计划来升级其当前的仪器。这包括： 购买大幅升级的部门工作站和文件服务器；升级电脑设施并增强研究生办公室电脑的连接性；购买 IBM RS/6000 工作站、专用文件服务器和 10 GB 的额外磁盘空间。 三组教职员工及其附属研究生将是此次升级的主要受益者。其中许多研究人员正在研究数据密集型实证微观和宏观经济学问题；其他人采用模拟方法来解决经济理论中的问题，而第三组则致力于开发新的计量经济学工具。扩建后的设施还将惠及大量研究生和本科生，并有助于进一步的教学和研究。