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CISL Director's message


CISL FY2009 accomplishments and FY2010 plans

CISL Computing Services

Computing Imperative: Facilities

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center

Computing Frontier: Center Virtualization

Toward an Earth System knowledge environment

The Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiative

The Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies

The Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory

The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service

The Earth System Curator

The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

Chronopolis: Federated digital preservation across space and time

Computationally intensive science gateway development

Computing Imperative: Hardware Cyberinfrastructure

Cyberinfrastructure procurement, deployment, and operations

Production supercomputing status

Very large computational experiments: Accelerating science

Special computational campaigns

Support for supercomputer users

Mass Storage System (MSS) improvement: AMSTAR

High Performance Storage System (HPSS)

Network engineering and telecommunications

Data analysis and visualization environment

Cybersecurity

TeraGrid supercomputing operations

TeraGrid supercomputing status

TeraGrid visualization server

Support for TeraGrid users

Computing Imperative: Software Cyberinfrastructure

Data assimilation research

Earth System Modeling Framework integration with other NCAR infrastructure

Community data analysis and visualization software

VAPOR visualization software for very large datasets

Science gateway framework from ESG and CDP infrastructure

Computing Imperative: Data Curation

Research Data Archive

THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE)


CISL Science

Science Imperative: Scientific Excellence

Ultra-high-resolution CCSM

Data assimilation research

Geophysical Statistics Project

Geophysical Turbulence Program

Turbulence science: Numerical algorithms and code development

Radial basis functions for modeling

Multiscale simulation techniques

Scientific data compression research

Science Imperative: Develop Mathematical Research Codes to Improve Models

Geophysical-Astrophysical Spectral-Element Adaptive Refinement code

Geophysical High Order Suite for Turbulence

High-Order Method Modeling Environment dynamical core

Science Frontier: Stochastic and Statistical Techniques for Model Development

Efficiency and accuracy of model development and testing

Science Frontier: Algorithmic Acceleration

Accelerating applications using accelerator-based architectures (coprocessors)

Accelerating applications by making them more scalable

Accelerating applications algorithmically

Science Frontier: Large and Heterogeneous Data Sets

Visualization of large data sets


CISL Education

Education Imperative: Integrating Research and Education

Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science

IMAGe Theme of the Year education and outreach

Education Imperative: Workforce Training and Development

Training in geoscientific tools

Training interns in computing at NCAR

Education Imperative: Broadening Participation

Education Imperative: Outreach

Visualization Laboratory outreach efforts

Outreach activities at conferences

Education Frontier: Transforming Education, Outreach, and Training


CISL Fabrics

Service

Innovation

Leadership

Collaboration

Mentorship

Diversity


CISL Research Catalog

Fournier, Aimé, Wavelet estimation of coherent modes in turbulence; Development of spectral-element and finite-volume methods; Other research

Mininni, Pablo and Rosenberg, Duane, GHOST Development

Pouquet, Annick, Large numerical simulations of turbulent rotating flows

Pouquet, Annick, MHD turbulence at high Reynolds number

Pouquet, Annick, Modeling of turbulence with rotation or magnetic fields

Rosenberg, Duane, GASpAR Development