CISL Annual Report Table of Contents

CISL Director’s message

CISL Services

CISL facilities

• Mesa Lab Computing Facility
• NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center

CISL computing services

• Hardware cyberinfrastructure
  • Data-intensive computing architecture
  • NWSC-1 computing procurement
  • AMSTAR storage procurement
  • Production supercomputing status
  • NCAR’s Globally Accessible Data Environment
  • Archival systems
  • Data analysis and visualization environment
  • Network engineering and telecommunications
  • Cybersecurity

• User services
  • User community
  • Special computational campaigns
  • Help desk and consulting
  • Allocating supercomputing resources
  • Earth System Model support

• National and regional supercomputing services collaborations
  • TeraGrid services
  • XSEDE services
  • Computational gateway development
  • Collaboration on CU cluster system

CISL data services

• Research Data Archive
• THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble
• CISL data infrastructure enhances IPCC AR5
• Science gateway services

CISL software cyberinfrastructure

• Data Assimilation Research Testbed software
• Community data analysis and visualization software
• VAPOR visualization software for very large datasets
• Science Gateway Framework
• Managing complex heterogeneous data

CISL Science

Interdisciplinary contributions

• Data assimilation research
• Multiscale modeling of geophysical and astrophysical turbulence
• Statistics for geophysical data and model experiments
• Integrated regional climate science
• Geophysical Turbulence Program facilitating studies in interdisciplinary turbulence

Scalable algorithms for massively parallel computers

• Discontinuous Galerkin HOMME
• Adaptive methods
• Scaling Earth System models
• Highly scalable codes for turbulent flows

Computational research and development

• Evaluating many-core and accelerator-based architectures
• Accelerating data analysis
• Accelerate applications algorithmically
• Scientific data compression and visualizing large datasets

CISL Education

Integrating research and education

• Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science
• IMAGe Theme Of the Year
• Research and Supercomputing Visitor Program
• Visualization Laboratory outreach

Workforce training and development

• Training interns in computing at NCAR
• Training in geoscientific tools
• Support for community workshops, tutorials, and summer schools

Broader Impacts

Broadening participation

• Outreach
• Training

CISL leadership in cyberinfrastructure

• Regional CI engagement
• National CI engagement
• International impacts
• Interactions with industry

CISL participation in the HPC community

CISL Profiles in Science