MRI: and Information Sciences Grid Node Research Facility

University Of Alabama At Birmingham, Birmingham AL

Investigators

Abstract

This project, from an institution in an EPSCoR state, acquiring instrumentation to set up a grid, aims at enabling/assisting research in areas such as economics, simulation, modeling, high performance computing, graphics and computational science projects (e.g., splicing). Ten different projects, involving the use of grid networks and possibly cluster of computers, are addressed in the fields of Computer Science and Computational Science. The infrastructure enables the following projects: Cluster/Grid Economics and Performance Better Explicit Parallel Programming Model Collaborative Environment for Multidisciplinary Research Research Modeling and Graphics Scalability of I/O and System Fabrics in a Grid High Performance Linear Algebra Research and Benchmark Exemplar for Campus Grid Grid-Based Modeling of Cardiac Electrical Activities Multi-Dimensional Scalable Dynamic Sequence Alignment Algorithm Accelerating Phylogenetic Tree Inference Using Grid Computing Broader Impact: Enabling collaborations between CS and other disciplines, the infrastructure will additionally aid in the quality of the summer visualization camp for high school students (targeting some underrepresented groups). Moreover, the equipment will service at least 8 PhD students, as well as other graduate and undergraduate students.