CISL News

NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather
On April 24, 2008, NCAR took delivery of the first IBM Power 575 to be shipped, continuing a 30-year tradition of providing a sustainable high performance computing environment to the atmospheric sciences community.

Supercomputers Resolve Stormy Issues Supercomputers Resolve Stormy Issues
Using a special allocation of computing power on CISL's blueice supercomputer, scientists have discovered turbulent eddies swirling through a simplified tropical cyclone.

Features

Open-source software that opens eyes
Open-source software that opens eyes Data sets on the order of terabytes (trillion of bytes) aren?t easy to explore in an interactive fashion without an armada of hardware and software. But a new platform developed by NCAR and two university partners offers users a comprehensive desktop environment for analyzing massive data sets, allowing them to see the forest for the trees.

Behind the Scenes of the IPCC
Behind the Scenes of the IPCC The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. The prize was particularly meaningful for NCAR, where over 40 of these Nobel laureates work to develop and interpret the climate models that feed into the IPCC reports.

CISL in the News

Supercomputer debuts in Boulder - Super fast IBM machine will help in atmospheric research
Rocky Mountain News (May 8, 2009)

NCAR computer redefines 'super' - IBM-built machine will aid in climate prediction
Boulder Daily Camera (May 8, 2008)

Multi-century High-resolution Climate Simulations Created Using Supercomputers
Science Daily (April 5, 2008)

Announcements and Events

Preparations for new 65-TFLOPS supercomputer bluefire: April 2, 2008 presentation by Tom Bettge, CISL Director of Operations and Services.

The 2007 CISL annual report describes our accomplishments and plans for computing facilities, cyberinfrastructure, research, knowledge development, and education and outreach.

The Daily Bulletin provides a calendar of events and daily news for NCAR supercomputer system users.

CISL seminars, workshops, and panels