SCD FY2001 ASR - Table of contents

Message from SCD Director Al Kellie
Significant accomplishment highlights

The NCAR Advanced Research Computing System procurement
Balanced, substantive progress by all sections toward fulfilling SCD's mission
The procurement of ARCS, NCAR's Advanced Research Computing System
High performance computing
Maintaining NCAR's production supercomputer environment
Supercomputing systems deployed at NCAR
FY2001 production system overview
Production system performance and utilization statistics
End-FY2001 production supercomputer systems
Key maintenance activities
Computational science research and development
Research
Software libraries and toolkits
Frameworks and modeling infrastructure
Proposals
Technology tracking
Data archiving and management system: The MSS
MSS history
MSS today
MSS accomplishments for FY2001
MSS growth
Future plans for the NCAR MSS
Network engineering and telecommunications
Introduction to NETS
Networking research projects and technology tracking
    Networking research projects
    Network technology tracking and transfer
Local Area Network projects
    NCAR/UCAR LAN projects
    UCAR LAN engineering projects
    SCD LAN projects
Metropolitan Area Network projects
Wide Area Network projects
Other network projects
Research data stewardship
DSS main accomplishments during FY2001
Summary and outline of DSS projects
DSS external linkages
Visualization and enabling technologies
Facilities for analysis, visualization, and collaboration
Community software for data analysis and visualization
Enterprise web services
Research and special projects in data and visualization
Collaborative efforts
Outreach and education
Technical presentations and educational outreach
Visitors
Publications
Assistance and support for NCAR's research community
Technical Consulting Group
    Consulting services
    Production computing support
    Security perimeter changes
    System testing
    ARCS procurement support
Digital Information Group
    Providing online information services using web-based technologies
    SCD website design and architecture
    Web-based information and user documentation
    Services provided to SCD
    Website maintenance and development
    DIG outreach, education, and training
Distributed Systems Group
    Overview of distributed services provided by DSG
    Expansion and upgrade of servers and services
    Clustered and fault-tolerant system configurations
    Expansion of Linux and other operating systems
    Machine room reorganization of consoles and servers
    Desktop systems activity and accomplishments
Database Services Group
    Managing computing accounts for researchers
    Survey of researchers for NSF review
UCAR Security Administrator
    Maintaining and enhancing UCAR's security perimeter
    Enhancing UCAR's security incident detection and response
    Establishing assured connection integrity and privacy
Enabling infrastruture
Business continuity and disaster recovery plan
Network monitoring and NCAB monitoring host policy
Mass Storage System expansion
Application support services
Research and new technology advances
Staffing changes
Decommissioned machines
Community service activities
Educational activities
Colorado Computational Science Fair
Computing grants to classrooms
SC2000 education program
Papers and publications
Publications, refereed
Papers and publications, non-refereed
Staff, visitors, and collaborators
SCD staff
Visitors
Collaborators


SCD FY2001 ASR table of contents

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