This award provides funding for the acquisition of critically needed computational and visualization equipment in support of UCSD's recently launched Computational Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (CSME) Doctoral Program (http://csme.ucsd.edu/). The expenditure will be highly matched (thirty percent) by the University of California, by both funds and infrastructure. The resulting CSME training facility will provide direct access to CSME students for design of effective computational strategies, development of methods tuned to large parallel environments, and testing of code efficiency (scalability) on a meaningful-sized computer. The CSME program offers integrated research and training in the modern tools of computational science. The objective of the program is to address the essential need to produce the next generation of scientists that will provide the solutions to the major problems of our time: climate change, anthropogenic pollution, and energy diversity as well as continue the quest for the understanding of fundamental problems of physics, chemistry and biology. This CSME facility will also provide benefits to the broader UCSD computational science community by providing a focus for many similar computational research programs on the campus. The CSME Program is based in the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM) at UCSD (http://ccom.ucsd.edu/), and directly involves faculty from five core academic departments (mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and physics), and also involves in a less direct way nearly all major science and engineering units at UCSD.
