SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES NSF 98-72009 Final Report

This report describes the research projects and accomplishments made possible through the availability of the sixteen processor SGI Origin 2000, purchased in parts with the funds from NSF SCREMS grant NSF 98-72009. To date the SGI Origin 2000 has served as the main computing facility in many interdisciplinary projects involving 48 faculty, research scientists, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students from six departments at Rice University, as well as several visiting scholars and collaborators from other universities. Computations performed on the SGI Origin 2000 have led to 44 journal articles, proceedings articles, and technical reports. Availability of the SGI Origin 2000 on campus has led to a significant increase in the complexity of the problems we are able to tackle and it has served as the catalyst for several of the research projects described in the report. The sixteen processor SGI Origin 2000 continues to be a widely used and important computing resource on campus.