MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Data Intensive Supercomputer for Innovative and Transformative Research in Science and Engineering

MRI-R2：采购数据密集型超级计算机，用于科学和工程的创新和变革研究

• 批准号: 0959870
• 负责人: Vipin Chaudhary
• 金额: $ 460.04万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0959870&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Acquisition; Data; Intensive

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of Data Intensive Supercomputer (DISC) at the University of Buffalo. The supercomputer provides transformative computing and data processing capability to approximately 250 immediate users involved in a wide range of innovative research and education activities. The substantial compute power, large memory, and fast storage is utilized to advance the immediate scientific goals of over 45 research groups throughout the Nation. The spectrum of research enabled by DISC can be classified into three broad themes: (i) data intensive computing, clustering, and datamining; (ii) simulation analytics, and (iii) the novel real-time simulation by data analytics. A vibrant multidisciplinary community is built around the new supercomputing infrastructure. Classes, tutorials, and workshops utilizing the new system are designed to engage undergraduates, graduates, postdoctoral fellows, scientists, and faculty within the local western New York area and nationally. The project team has a long history of successfully administering educational and outreach programs centered around high-performance computing. Many existing educational programs are impacted by this acquisition including: the Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) enrichment program, the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science, and Buffalo's "Mayor's Next Generation Scientists Program." Results from the studies enabled by the new equipment are disseminated by student and faculty presentations at regional and national meetings, and through publication in peer-reviewed journals.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国回收与再投资法》（公共法第111-5号）资助的。这本主要的研究仪器恢复和再投资（MRI-R2）奖授予了布法罗大学数据密集型超级计算机（DISC）的收购。超级计算机为参与广泛的创新研究和教育活动的大约250位直接用户提供了变革性计算和数据处理能力。 实质性的计算能力，庞大的记忆和快速存储被用来促进全国45多个研究小组的直接科学目标。通过光盘启用的研究范围可以分为三个广泛的主题：（i）数据密集型计算，聚类和数据进行； （ii）模拟分析，以及（iii）数据分析的新型实时仿真。一个充满活力的多学科社区是围绕新的超级计算基础架构建立的。 利用新系统的课程，教程和讲习班旨在吸引本科生，毕业生，博士后研究员，科学家和纽约当地地区和全国范围内的教职员工。该项目团队在成功管理围绕高性能计算的教育和外展计划的历史悠久。这次收购的许多现有教育计划都受到了：少数民族的水牛区工程意识（Beam）丰富计划，埃里克·皮特曼（Eric Pitman）计算科学的年度夏季研讨会以及布法罗的“市长的下一代科学家计划”。 新设备所启用的研究的结果是在区域和国家会议上的学生和教职员工演讲传播的，以及通过同行评审期刊的出版。