CISL Feature Story

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		August 04, 2008 Stellar Insights: Using the TeraGrid to Understand the Stars Our understanding of the Sun, and other stars like it, has been continually growing. But the last 20 years have been revolutionary. Improved technologies and observational capacity have led to entire new fields of study like helioseismology and asteroseismology that look at the global oscillations of the Sun and other stars to deduce their internal structure.


		August 04, 2008 CISL Supports NCAR ASP Colloquium CISL provided cyberinfrastructure and consulting support to NCAR's 2008 Advanced Study Program (ASP) summer colloquium. Graduate students, model developers, and mentors worked together to produce, document, and archive hundreds of test runs of 13 dynamical cores being considered for next-generation atmospheric models. Results and methodology are now available to the research community via a new science gateway.


		March 01, 2008 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.


		December 07, 2007 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.


		November 10, 2007 A Stellar Performance hanks to a recently developed computer model, scientists are now able to peer deeper into the inner workings of the Sun, which are hidden from any current observational technique.


		September 11, 2006 Earth System Grid provides easy access to large-scale climate data The Earth System Grid is a powerful environment for next-generation climate research that addresses the challenges associated with analyzing global Earth system models.


		August 15, 2006 NCAR joins the TeraGrid NCAR has established a partnership with the TeraGrid, a network of supercomputers and other devices that comprise the nation�s most advanced infrastructure for open scientific research.


		May 19, 2006 Working with numerical methods and parallel algorithms CISL computer scientists develop algorithms that will improve the fidelity, performance, and capability of Earth system models on today�s high-performance, parallel computers.


		May 17, 2006 Studying geophysical turbulence CISL facilitates fundamental research on geophysical turbulence using both theory and numerical simulation with experimental validation.


		May 17, 2006 Building a data assimilation facility The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is an open-source, publicly available software environment that combines assimilation algorithms, models, and observation sets to provide a flexible, extensible framework for data assimilation research


		May 16, 2006 Integrating portals and Grid computing As part of its ongoing commitment to advancing information technology, CISL is developing and deploying specialized Web portals that provide access to geoscience data and computational resources via the Internet.


		May 15, 2006 Improving and expanding NCAR�s Research Data Archive CISL is working to improve and expand NCAR�s Research Data Archive, preserve historic observational and analyzed data collections, and make new data products available that are necessary for leading-edge research.


		May 15, 2006 Providing support for scientific data analysis and visualization CISL is developing a cyberinfrastructure of high-performance visualization computers and shared file systems, along with new software tools for geoscientific visualization, to help researchers analyze their data


		May 12, 2006 Simulating NCAR's Mass Storage System By using simulation software to identify which technologies and configurations offer the most cost-effective solutions for the MSS, CISL provides better service to the international research community.


		May 12, 2006 Benchmarking for the geosciences CISL uses a series of standardized tests to evaluate computer architectures, commodity clusters, system interconnects, and other technologies to determine their suitability for research applications


		May 12, 2006 Tracking new computer technologies CISL tracks emerging computer technologies to ensure the efficient use of current computing resources and the selection of the most appropriate computers for NCAR/UCAR's future computational needs.


		February 03, 2006 Theme-of-the-Year program looks at new mathematical strategies for modeling Earth systems Workshops promote multidisciplinary interactions between NCAR scientists and university mathematics community


		January 31, 2006 Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory VSTO will provide an education and research environment for searching and analyzing solar and space physics data


		January 31, 2006 CISL researches ultimate algorithms, computer architecture Computer scientists and applied mathematicians in CISL have built a scalable general circulation model named HOMME that employs advanced computing techniques to use tens of thousands of processors effectively


		January 31, 2006 MSS simulator increases data storage efficiency Simulation software developed by CISL improves price-performance of NCAR Mass Storage System


		January 31, 2006 VAPOR visualizes terascale datasets CISL and university partners develop an integrated data analysis and visualization environment called VAPOR that handles datasets too large for traditional visualization tools


		November 23, 2005 Grid-enabled Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Modeling System The Grid-BGC portal will bring new efficiencies to researchers simulating terrestrial biogeochemical (BGC) processes


		June 01, 2005 Vortices, eddies, and flows: CISL fosters research on geophysical turbulence From sea breezes and plumes of smoke to drifting snow and billowing fog banks, turbulent flows are found everywhere in the Earth system


		May 19, 2005 Developing mathematical software CISL computational scientists and software engineers work to develop efficient, portable, high-performance, open-source numerical libraries for the mathematical and geosciences community.


		May 17, 2005 Applying geophysical statistics to Earth system sciences CISL pursues the innovative application and development of statistics and probability theory to problems in the geosciences


		May 12, 2005 Developing a cyberinfrastructure to support scientific research CISL evaluates leading-edge technologies on an ongoing basis in its quest to maintain the most cost-effective and efficient computational environment for the NCAR/UCAR scientific community