Grant: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Quantitative models enable researchers to describe, predict, manipulate, and understand a rich variety of complex phenomena ranging from transactions on networks occuring in microseconds to climate change that occurs over several millennia.  Models can be constructed from data using statistical techniques, or from physical principles using partial differential equations.  When applied to real problems, modelling becomes increasingly complex, and requires significant computational resources.  Modelling often involves intensive interaction with data, which can be facilitated by fast computers with large memory and storage capability.   With large and recent growth in modelling research at Acadia, demand for computational resources is steadily growing.  The research to be supported by equipment requested in this application will generate new techniques, including the application of methods to various areas of science, and research training of students at a variety of levels in high-performance mathematical and statistical modelling. The equipment will be accessible to other modelling researchers in the Acadia community, in addition to the principal investigator and co-applicants.