This project, acquiring an instrument based on advanced GPU/CPU computers with 360 TB high-performance storage and high-speed communication links, aims to enhance the current UMBC High Performance Computing Facility. The instrument enables research in emerging data-intensive high-performance computing topics. This multi-disciplinary and collaborative project involves faculty and students from biology, chemistry, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, environmental systems, mathematics, physics, and statistics. The following current, as well as new research projects, benefit immediately from the availability of the enhanced high-performance computing instrument: - Parallel Algorithms for Numerical Simulations of Partial Differential Equations; - Application of GPU Processing to Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Modeling; - Atmospheric Remote Sensing; etc.

Broader Impacts:

Research and educational initiatives should be highly impacted by the research enabled through the instrument. The research team, including female faculty members, has interactions with the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) organization and the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT). Undergraduate students will be involved in the UMBC REU site on high performance computing. Furthermore, the instrumentation should contribute to attract students from under-represented groups into sciences. Presented are plans and initiatives to do so.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
1228778
Program Officer
Rita Rodriguez
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2012-09-01
Budget End
2015-08-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$300,000
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21250