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bluefire supercomputer paints most realistic sunspot picture to date bluefire supercomputer paints most realistic sunspot picture to date
The newest addition to NCAR's supercomputer lineup, known as bluefire, has played a starring role in generating the most comprehensive images of sunspots ever created.

CISL announces the kick off of our 2009 Summer Internship program CISL announces the kick off of our 2009 Summer Internship program
The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) Program offers graduate students and undergraduate students significant hands-on R&D opportunities in high performance computing (HPC) and related fields that use HPC for scientific discovery and modeling.

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IMAGe refocuses IPCC projections IMAGe refocuses IPCC projections
Contrary to earlier projections, the new study shows this will be a far greater challenge than originally estimated.

Stellar Insights: Using the TeraGrid to Understand the Stars 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.

CISL in the News

Weather Forecasts of Great Value to Americans, Survey Finds
U.S. News & World Report (June 25, 2009)

Announcements and Events

Preparations for new 65-TFLOPS supercomputer bluefire: April 2, 2008 presentation by Tom Bettge, CISL Director of Operations and Services.

The 2008 CISL annual report describes our accomplishments and plans for computing facilities, cyberinfrastructure, research, knowledge development, and education and outreach.

The Daily Bulletin provides a calendar of events and daily news for NCAR supercomputer system users.

CISL seminars, workshops, and panels