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There were over 1,100 users of SCD computers, including 600 university researchers from 100 institutions.
The primary areas of research supported by all NCAR supercomputers are shown in proportion by this chart:
The university community used SCD computing resources for these areas of research:
NCAR staff used SCD computing resources for these areas of research:
SCD operates two facilities: the Climate Simulation Laboratory (CSL) and the Community Computing facility.
The Community facility is used by university scientists and NCAR researchers to investigate questions in atmospheric and related sciences with large computational requirements.The 400% increase in the computing resources in the last year yielded a large increase in the size of allocations. The typical allocation awarded for large university computing projects by SCD's Advisory Committee was 10,000 GAUs, up from 2,000 a year ago. (One GAU equals three hours on an IBM SP processor.) SCD has also increased its allocations to graduate students and postdocs by a factor of 2.5.
The CSL is a facility for dedicated climate modeling in support of the multiagency U.S. Global Change Research Program. The CSL provides high-performance computing and data storage systems to support large-scale, long-running simulations of the earth's climate system. CSL projects must be supported by a non-profit research organization or an agency participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program.In FY2000, CSL computing resources supported 13 large projects, with one-year allocations ranging from 15,000 GAUs to 370,000 GAUs. Proposals were submitted in January 2000 and peer-reviewed by the CSL Allocations Panel. SCD convenes this panel with guidance from the National Science Foundation's U.S. Global Change Research Program and input from the other agencies who participate in the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Details of the CSL awards for 2000 are provided on SCD's CSL website.
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