Community service activities
Brian Bevirt served as a science writing mentor for UCAR's SOARS program.
Dorothy Bustamante participates as a member of the Boulder County Latina Women's League (BCLWL), a non-profit organization that focuses on creating educational opportunities for Latina middle and high school students. This year BCLWL sponsored its second annual Latinas Building Bridges in Education, a program that matches Latina high school and middle school students with professional women in the community, with the goal of providing Latina girls exposure to the professional world. This year Dorothy was involved in meeting with the Millennium Trust Foundation to discuss next year's conference after the Latina League's proposal had made the final cut. The league was awarded $5,000 for the 2003 conference.
Ginger Caldwell was the SC2001 Infrastructure Committee chair for the SC2001 conference, November 10-16, 2001 in Denver Colorado. The Infrastructure Committee handled A/V, housing, bussing, social events, space allocation in the convention center and in hotels, catering, and student volunteers with a $500,000 budget. The SC annual conference focuses on High Performance Computing and High Performance Networking. A link for the SC2001 conference is at: http://www.sc2001.org/
John Clyne served as the visualization program chair for the Cray User's Group.
Fred Clare volunteers on the NCAR Library Book Selection Committee.
Scot Colburn served as the chair of the Front Range GigaPop Technical Committee (FTC). He also served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel and served on the State of Colorado Fiber RFI committee.
Susan Cross served as a community mentor for the SOARS program.
Rachelle Daily serves as Secretary to the Executive Board of the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC). She attended meetings of the Executive Board during 2002 to begin planning for the next IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage (scheduled for 2003). Throughout the year, she maintained the membership list and alias for this board, as well as the membership database for the IEEE MSSTC, and attended other meetings related to symposium planning. She is a member of the logistics and planning team for the Computing in Atmospheric Research (CAS) Workshop, an international workshop sponsored by SCD and vendors. The next workshop is scheduled for September 2003 in Annecy, France.
Cecelia DeLuca in CSS served as one of three technical managers of the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF), which is developing the software infrastructure for building and coupling climate models, weather models, and data-assimilation systems. Collaborators include SCD, CGD, and MMM at NCAR; NOAA GFDL and NCEP; MIT; the University of Michigan; DOE ANL and LANL, and NASA-GSFC DAO and NSIPP. The ESMF is being developed jointly by the Earth system community as a resource that will benefit the community by increasing software reuse, interoperability, and performance portability. Cecelia organized the first ESMF community meeting, which was held in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 2002. She was also reappointed as CCSM Software Engineering Working Group (SEWG) Co-Chair for a second two-year term. She organized and participated in SEWG meetings at NCAR February 14-15, 2002 and at the CCSM workshop in Breckenridge, Colorado on June 25, 2002.
John Dennis presented a talk at the Breckenridge SEWG workshop on Trends in Computer Architectures, which provided important technical background information to the attendees of the workshop.
George Fuentes is the NCAR voting member of IBM's SP-XXL Group. The SP-XXL group is comprised of IBM SP installations that are 128 nodes and greater. The SP-XXL group meets three times a year and provides technical input to IBM on new functionality that should be added to the AIX and PSSP operating system product toolset.
Marc Genty is the Resource Management working group chair for the IBM SP-XXL Group.
Pam Gillman is the System Administration working group chair for the IBM SP-XXL Group.
Gene Harano was on the Program Committee for the 10th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies in cooperation with the 19th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. The conference was held in College Park, MD on April 15-18, 2002. He is also a member of the Program Committee for the 20th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems in cooperation with the 11th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, which is scheduled for April 7-10, 2003 in San Diego, CA. Gene was a member of the program committee for the Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) 2001 meeting, sponsored by SCD and vendors held October 2001 in Annecy, France. He is a member of the StorageTek Strategic Advisory Council, which provides feedback on corporate planning and a member of the StorageTek Large Tape Users Group (LTUG). Gene co-chaired the July 2002 THIC meeting held at NCAR.
Belinda Housewright served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel.
Jeff Kuehn served as Deputy Chair of the tutorials program for SC2001 and as chair of the tutorials program for SC2002.
Linda LaBrie participates as a board member for Boulder Valley Schools Vocational-Technical Education. She provides advice and an information technology perspective from her work as the Computer Production Group supervisor in directing Boulder Valley Vo-Tech's computing education programs. She also acts as a mentor for students and serves as a court-appointed special advocate acting as a liason for parents involved with Social services and the court system.
Lynda Lester sponsors the Boulder-based Web Designers and Developers group.
Richard Loft reviewed articles for the Journal of Computational Physics.
Marla Meehl serves on the Westnet Steering Committee, is chair of the Front Range GigaPop Management Committee (FMC), and is a member of the Quilt Steering Committee. She also served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel. Marla served on the BRAN Management and BRAN Technical committees. She also presented a networking seminar to NREL. Marla presented a NETS overview to EPA visitors to SCD.
Don Middleton served on a National Research Council Committee to develop a long-term research agenda for the NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) project. Don contributed to the interagency Middleware and Grid Infrastructure Committee (MAGIC) effort to promote long-term strategies for developing a national Grid infrastructure across the various federal agencies. Middleton also served as a proposal reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy and NOAA.
David Mitchell presented an IPv6 seminar.
Bernard T. O'Lear is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee Executive Board. He attended meetings of the Executive Board during 2002. He co-chairs the Computing in Atmospheric Sciences International workshops, which are sponsored by SCD and vendors. The next workshop is scheduled for September 2003 in Annecy, France.
Peter O'Neil presented a talk on Net100 at the February 2002 NLANR/I2 Joint Techs Meeting. He also served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel.
Pete Peterson served as Chair of the SOARS Steering Committee, and as a mentor for the SOARS program.
Juli Rew served as a science writing mentor for the SOARS Program. She also serves as the University representative on the MSS Advisory Committee. Juli volunteers on the NCAR Library Book Selection Committee.
Teresa Shibao served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel.
Tim Scheitlin assisted SOARS students in producing 3D visualizations of their summer projects.
Pete Siemsen presented talks on security at the NSF High Performance Connections Workshop and the NLANR/I2 Joint Techs Meeting in July 2002. Pete presented an IPv6 seminar. He also served on the Boulder Valley Schools Tech 21 proposal review panel.
Lana Soller participated as a science judge at the Boulder Country Day School Science Fair.
Steve Thomas has refereed publications for Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Computational Physics, International Journal of Applied Mathematics, and Computer Science. Steve was elected to the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for high-performance computing in Canada.
Jim Van Dyke served on the BRAN Management and BRAN Technical committees. He also presented a networking seminar to NREL.
CSS staff was instrumental this year in bringing about UCAR membership in the Gelato Federation http://www.gelato.org/ The goals of the Gelato Federation are to provide open source software for the Linux/Itanium-2 computing platform. The architecture of the Itanium-2 represents a significant departure from previous microprocessor designs and holds significant promise as a key component in future high-performance computer designs. As a Gelato member, CSS has committed one software developer and has recently received $200,000 in matching funds from Hewlett-Packard, UCAR's Gelato sponsor, to fund a software engineer for at least two years. HP has also donated approximately $160,000 of hardware to support this effort. CSS's objectives as members of Gelato are three-fold: port and optimize CSS Spectral Toolkit mathematical libraries for Itanium-II, port and tune production NCAR Fortran codes to this environment, and improve, in collaboration with the NETS Web100 project, the TCP/IP network performance of these systems. These three activities will combine to enable UCAR researchers in the geosciences to better exploit the performance capabilities of this promising architecture.
VETS staff -- Don Middleton, Jeff Boote, John Clyne, Darin Oman, Joey Mendoza, and Tim Scheitlin -- provide an ongoing community service at conferences and for NCAR visitors by explaining, supporting, and demonstrating state-of-the-art scientific visualization techniques and technology in the forms of technical presentations and education and outreach presentations. They also provided interactive virtual conferencing services to the scientific community via the Vislab's function as the NCAR AccessGrid node.