CISL News

NCAR Distributes Premier Climate Reanalysis Dataset NCAR Distributes Premier Climate Reanalysis Dataset
The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) and NCAR have partnered to distribute what scientists are calling the gold standard for climate studies.

NCAR Allocates Over 12 Million Processor Hours to Climate and Atmospheric Research NCAR Allocates Over 12 Million Processor Hours to Climate and Atmospheric Research
The Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has allocated 12 million processor hours to 13 projects over the next 18 months for climate modeling in support of the multi-agency Climate Change Science Program.

NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather
On April 24, 2008, NCAR took delivery of the first IBM Power 575 to be shipped, continuing a 30-year tradition of providing a sustainable high performance computing environment to the atmospheric sciences community.

Feature

Open-source software that opens eyes
Open-source software that opens eyes Data sets on the order of terabytes (trillion of bytes) aren?t easy to explore in an interactive fashion without an armada of hardware and software. But a new platform developed by NCAR and two university partners offers users a comprehensive desktop environment for analyzing massive data sets, allowing them to see the forest for the trees.


CISL in the News

Announcements and Events

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

The 2007 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