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CISL accomplishments in FY2008 and plans for FY2009

Strategic priority: Expand the capability and capacity of NCAR supercomputing facilities

Supporting projects:

Highlight project: Plans for developing the NCAR Supercomputing Center (NSC) with Wyoming partners

Reintroduction of liquid cooling for high performance computing

Followup reports on FY2007 facilities plans that are not featured this year:

Geoscience Application Requirements for Petascale Architectures II (GARPA-2) Workshop

Data center expansion advanced conceptual design

Chilled water system upgrade


Strategic priority: Cyberinfrastructure procurement, deployment, and operations

Supporting projects:

Production supercomputing

Supercomputer status

Highlight project: Production deployment of bluefire supercomputer

Supercomputer special campaigns

Supporting supercomputer users

Very large computational experiments: Accelerating science

Cybersecurity enhancement

Mass Storage System (MSS) improvement: AMSTAR

Deploy a development High Performance Storage System (HPSS) system for evaluation

Network engineering and telecommunications

Phone upgrade/GigE to the desktop

SuperDREAM

Intercampus redundancy/redundant router project

Cell phone infrastructure upgrade

Data analysis and visualization environment advancements

Highlight project: TeraGrid operations at NCAR

Blue Gene/L system operations

Blue Gene/L system uptime availability

TeraGrid utilization at NCAR

TeraGrid support

CTSS capabilities on Blue Gene/L

Parallel wide-area filesystem testing

Twister visualization server deployment

Followup reports on FY2007 cyberinfrastructure plans that are not featured this year:

NCAR TeraGrid integration efforts

TeraGrid accounting connector code

UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP)

10 Gbps end-to-end technology implemented at NCAR

Mesa Lab and Foothills Lab WAN wireless upgrade

LAN wireless upgrade

Storage Area Network (SAN) deployment for CDP/ESG


Strategic priority: Research in computational science and math for geophysics: TDD and IMAGe

Supporting projects:

IMAGe research: New algorithms, tools, and geophysical models

Data assimilation research

Geophysical Statistics Project

Geophysical Turbulence Program

GTP contributions by visiting collaborators

Turbulence science: Numerical algorithms and code development

IMAGe theme for 2008: Geophysical turbulence phenomena

Numerical methods: Application of radial basis functions to modeling

Multiscale simulation techniques

CISL research: Computational science

Highlight project: HOMME-CAM integration using HOMME's spectral-element dynamical core

HOMME: Discontinuous Galerkin method

Ultra-high-resolution CCSM

Urgent computing

Accelerator card R&D

Computationally intensive science gateway development

Scientific data compression research

Followup reports on FY2007 research plans that are not featured this year:

Networking research projects and technology tracking

Layer 2 networking for researchers

Network Path and Applications Diagnosis (NPAD)

Adaptive-mesh grid techniques for climate modeling on millennial time scales

Scalable numerical methods for partial differential equations


Strategic priority: Toward an Earth System knowledge environment

Supporting projects:

The Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiative: Realizing an Earth System Knowledge Environment, Building a science gateway framework, and the Community Data Portal

The Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET)

The Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO)

The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS)

Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and ESMF-based initiatives

Highlight project: Cyberinfrastructure for next-generation atmospheric models

The Earth System Curator

Research Data Archive

Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Research (VAPOR)

The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

Bringing new functionality to data visualization using Google Earth

Chronopolis: Federated digital preservation across space and time

Community tools and frameworks for geoscientific analysis and visualization

Followup reports on FY2007 Earth System Knowledge Environment plans that are not featured this year:

CISL Portal (was SCD portal)

Grid-BGC


Strategic priority: Cultivating a scientifically engaged citizenry: Education and outreach

Supporting projects:

Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science program

IMAGe Theme of the Year education and outreach

Vislab outreach program

Training in geoscientific tools

Conference outreach

Security administrators training


Research catalog

Fournier, Aimé. Analyses and applications of three spatial discretization methods

Mininni, Pablo. GHOST Development

Pouquet, Annick. Exploiting the symmetries of the Taylor-Green (TG) flow in the case of coupling to a magnetic field

Pouquet, Annick. MHD turbulence at high Reynolds number

Pouquet, Annick. Modeling of turbulent flows with magnetic fields

Pouquet, Annick. Rotating flows, waves, eddies and helicity

Pouquet, Annick. IMAGe Theme-of-the-Year 2008

Rosenberg, Duane. GASpAR Development

Rosenberg, Duane. Symposium on Turbulence and Dynamos at Petaspeed

St.Cyr, Amik. Multiscale techniques

St.Cyr, Amik. Scalable preconditioning techniques


Visiting collaborator reports:

Brachet, Marc

Cossette, Jean-Francois

Finnigan, John

Jarecka, Dorota

Jonker, H.

Ortiz, Pablo

Piotrowski, Zbigniew

Wang, Lian-Ping