DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to acquire a supercomputer for campus research.
“We will be able to boost performance to a level that would not be possible previously without thousands of CPUs [central processing units],” Robert Fisher, a physics professor at UMass Dartmouth, said in a statement. “The power of this new supercomputer will be truly awesome.”
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The supercomputer will use the power of graphics-processing units (GPUs), which exist in every computer and game machine, to enable researchers to model complex phenomena in astrophysics, applied mathematics, oceanography and materials science research, as well as conducting various numerical experiments, administrators said.
“This new supercomputer will boost the computing capability of researchers at UMass Dartmouth enormously,” said Fisher, who led a multidisciplinary team in writing the grant proposal. “This will truly be a world-class resource for our scientists and will place our students at the forefront of simulation-based research.”
The National Science Foundation awarded the grant through its Major Research Instrumentation program, which received additional funding under the economic stimulus law signed by President Barack Obama last year.
Additional information is available at www.umassd.edu.
