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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
Using a special allocation of computing power on CISL's blueice supercomputer, scientists have discovered turbulent eddies swirling through a simplified tropical cyclone.
Turbulent Times
IMAGe's Theme-of-the-Year (TOY) is a year-long focus on a specific aspect of applied mathematics and the geosciences, designed to advance research and education between the mathematical and geoscience communities. The TOY08 will focus on turbulence applied to the geosciences.
NCAR's SC07 Highlights
CISL presented NCAR science and imagery at the 2007 Supercomputing Conference. At NCAR's booth, CISL speakers were joined by guest scientists from Oregon State University, the University of Colorado, and NCAR's Climate and Global Dynamics Division.
NCAR to Showcase Science at SC07
At this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC07) the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will offer a series of science talks that illustrate how supercomputers are advancing discovery in the geosciences.
CISL Hosts CAS2K7 Workshop
The 2007 Computing in Atmospheric Sciences Workshop (CAS2K7) was held September 9-13 in Annecy, France. It helps supercomputing industry leaders learn in detail about their customers' needs and allows them to present their product roadmaps. It is also a forum for scientists to exchange ideas and share experiences about computing resources and applications.
NCAR Adds Computing Resource to the TeraGrid
NCAR's 2,048-processor BlueGene/L system (frost) is now available to researchers using the TeraGrid. The TeraGrid is the nation's most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research. Each year, frost will contribute up to 4.5 million processor-hours to the TeraGrid.
Changing of the Guard
On June 26, CISL removed the last frame of bluesky to make way for bluefire, the IBM POWER6 system scheduled to arrive in the second quarter of 2008. Bluesky served the NCAR and University communities and the Climate Simulation Laboratory for four years and four months.
CISL Launches New Internship Program
The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) Program, a prototype partnership between NCAR's supercomputing center and selected universities, is being implemented for the first time this summer.
New Supercomputer for NCAR Research
NCAR has installed a 12-teraflop IBM supercomputer named blueice. Its capability to enhance the resolution and complexity of Earth system models will enable scientists to improve climate and weather research.
NCAR to showcase high-end technologies and scientific discovery at SC06
Series of presentations will focus on advances in computing capability at NCAR, new techniques in computational science and climate modeling
National LambdaRail lights the future for research in science and networking
The next-generation National LambdaRail network offers a wide range of applications and support for the atmospheric and Earth sciences community
Earth System Grid: Easy Web access to terascale climate data
ESG provides the geosciences community with model output, source code, initialization datasets, and tools for data publishing, analysis, and visualization.
ScicomP12/SP-XXL conference offers exposure to new ideas for international attendees
A diverse and international audience gathered at NCAR July 17–21 for the joint ScicomP12/SP-XXL conference, hosted by NCAR’s Scientific Computing Division.
NCAR to collaborate with San Diego Supercomputer Center on replication of critical data
Partnership is aimed at ensuring the reliable, long-term preservation of digital assets vital to the missions of both institutions
NCAR joins TeraGrid, enabling scientists to strengthen research into complex phenomena
CISL and TeraGrid collaborate to establish NCAR as a resource provider for the nation's most advanced infrastructure for open scientific research
Deadline approaches for ScicomP/SP-XXL meetings
Register before June 30 to receive the discounted rate for ScicomP/SP-XXL, two meetings on computer performance and scalability being hosted at NCAR by SCD on July 17-21.
CISL's Tim Scheitlin creates visualizations for NCAR scientists
Images help researchers analyze severe weather, climate change, and other geoscience phenomena
Maximum computer performance and scalability to be focus of ScicomP/SP-XXL meetings
In July 2006, the Scientific Computing Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research will host two concurrent meetings for scientific users of IBM high-performance computing systems.
Powerful, free NCL software makes it easy to access, process, and visualize geoscientific data
The NCAR Command Language (NCL), designed by SCD and enhanced through ongoing collaboration between SCD and CGD, is an important part of Earth systems science in 51 countries.
NCAR’s Mass Storage System gets bigger, faster
Transition from HiPPI to Fibre Channel technology increases MSS capacity and bandwidth
Nine SCD staff receive awards for exceptional achievement
SCD Special Recognition Awards presented at annual ceremony