Two physics faculty members, Ted Bunn and Jerry Gilfoyle, have just been awarded a $160,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to buy a new supercomputing cluster for their research. Ted and his students will use it to simulate new telescopes that are being designed for observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Jerry and his students will use it for simulation and analysis of nuclear physics data from Jefferson Lab.
Both faculty members are excited about the new research directions that this will allow them to explore, and especially about the opportunity for students to be involved with research using cutting-edge supercomputing equipment.
