OSCER Awarded Prestigious
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant
August 14 2003
SUMMARY
On Thursday August 14 2003, the National
Science Foundation awarded a prestigious Major
Research Instrumentation grant
("Acquisition of an Itanium Cluster for Grid Computing,"
$340,000, 09/01/03 - 08/31/06, EIA-0320895)
to the OU
Supercomputing Center for Education & Research, for a
proposal titled "Acquisition of an Itanium Cluster for Grid Computing."
The grant will run for three years starting September 1 2003,
and will pay for a modest-sized Itanium2-based
Linux cluster supercomputer, as well as software (compilers, debugger),
storage (disk, tape) and system administrator time.
The new supercomputer, named schooner.oscer.ou.edu
in honor of the Sooner Schooner (above), will be used as a development
platform for Grid computing
projects: a supercomputing education project and six Grid computing
research projects, in fields such as weather forecasting, earthquake
simulation, high energy physics, hydrocarbon reservoir management,
and aerospace design.
PROJECT SUMMARY & DESCRIPTION
PARTICIPATING PROJECTS
- LEAD: Linked Environments
for Atmospheric Discovery
(Droegemeier, Weber, George)
- MEAD:
Modeling Environment for Atmospheric Discovery
(Weber, Droegemeier, Neeman)
- NEESgrid: George E.
Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(Mish)
- Data Grid Tools for High
Energy Physics
(Skubic, Snow)
- Flow
Through Porous Media
(Papavassiliou, Neeman)
- Grid-PrADO: Grid-enabled Preliminary Aerospace Design &
Optimization Environment
(Striz, Neeman)
- Supercomputing
in Plain English (HPC education)
(Neeman)
PERSONNEL
- Henry Neeman
(principal investigator)
Director, OSCER
Visiting Asst Prof, Computer
Science
Research Scientist, Center
for Analysis & Prediction of Storms
- Kelvin Droegemeier
Regents' Prof, Meteorology
Director, Center for Analysis
& Prediction of Storms
- Kyran (Kim) Mish
Presidential Prof of Structural Engineering, Civil
Engineering & Environmental Science
Director, Fears Structural Engineering
Laboratory
- Dimitrios Papavassiliou
Assistant Prof, Chemical
Engineering & Materials Science
- Pat Skubic
Prof, Physics & Astronomy
- Joel
Snow
Assoc Prof, Physics,
Langston University
- Alfred
Striz
Prof, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director, Center for Engineering Optimization
- Dan Weber
Senior Research Scientist, Center
for Analysis & Prediction of Storms
- Brandon George
OSCER Manager of Operations
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