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NCAR Supercomputer Speical Campaign Archive

Here you will find information about previous special computing campaigns.

Date: April 24, 2008
Title: ASP - Next Generation Global Weather And Climate Models - Summer Colloquium
ASP -  Next Generation Global Weather And Climate Models - Summer Colloquium The Advanced Studies Program (ASP) - Next Generation Global Weather And Climate Models- Summer Colloquium runs from June 1, 2008 to June 13, 2008. During that time, student and scientific partner jobs will run in a special high-priority queue on bluevista.
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Date: April 01, 2008
Title: Spring WRF-ARW Convective Forecast Special Campaign
Spring WRF-ARW Convective Forecast Special Campaign The Spring WRF-ARW Convective Forecast Special Campaign runs from April 1, 2008 through June 6, 2008. During that time, seven blueice nodes will be in use during the overnight hours for the forecasts and post-processing work.
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Date: March 20, 2008
Title: ARCTAS Chemical Forecast Special Campaign
ARCTAS Chemical Forecast Special Campaign The ARCTAS Chemical Forecast Special Campaign runs from March 20, 2008 through April 21, 2008 on blueice. During that time the production jobs run in one of the special high-priority production job queues on the cluster.
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Date: November 01, 2007
Title: ICE-L
ICE-L The ICE-L Operational Field Project Special Computing Campaign is currently running on nine semi-dedicated bluevista nodes. The nodes will be in use ~12 hours a day from November 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
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Date: July 01, 2007
Title: MMM High-Resolution Hurricane Special Campaign
MMM High-Resolution Hurricane Special Campaign The 2007 MMM High-Resolution Hurricane Special Campaign runs from July 01, 2007 to November 05, 2007. During that time, eight blueice nodes will be available on days when there is a storm of interest is in the Atlantic Basin.
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Date: April 10, 2007
Title: MMM Convective Forecast Special Campaign
MMM Convective Forecast Special Campaign The MMM Convective Forecast Special Computing Campaign runs from April 10, 2007 through June 30, 2007. During this time, twelve bluevista nodes will be in use ~16 hours each day for the once-daily forecast and post-processing work.
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Date: February 01, 2007
Title: Break Through Science (BTS) Special Campaign
Break Through Science (BTS) Special Campaign Seventy-five of the one hundred blueice compute nodes have been prioritized for use by the Break Through Science (BTS) initiative. The nodes will be in use 24x7 from February 1, 2007 to July 31, 2007. [Current Statistics]
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Date: December 01, 2006
Title: RAL Africa Initiative Special Campaign
RAL Africa Initiative Special Campaign Eighteen lightning compute nodes are now being used 24x7 to produce the West African WRF forecasts four times per day. This special computing campaign runs from November 2006 through May 2007.
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Date: July 10, 2006
Title: MMM Hurricane Campaign
MMM Hurricane Campaign The 2006 MMM Hurricane Campaign runs from July 10, 2006 to October 31, 2006. During that time, ten bluevista nodes will be in use from approximately 6:00 pm to 6:00 am on days when there is a storm of interest is in the Atlantic Basin.
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Date: June 12, 2006
Title: MMM Convection Forecasts
MMM Convection Forecasts The MMM Convection Forecast campaign runs from June 1, 2006 through July 31, 2006. During that time, sixty-four lightning nodes will be in use 24x7 for the twice-daily forecasts and post-processing work.
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Date: June 09, 2006
Title: ASP - Art Of Climate Modeling - Summer Colloquium
ASP - Art Of Climate Modeling - Summer Colloquium The Advanced Studies Program - The Art Of Climate Modeling - Summer Colloquium runs from June 4, 2006 to June 16, 2006. During that time, twenty-four bluesky 8-way nodes will be in use 24x7 by students and scientific partners.
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