NCAR Mesa Laboratory

Diagram of SCD computing facility: What's on the floor now

SCD supercomputer gallery: A history of computing at NCAR from 1963 to the present

SCD research and development activities

SCD conducts a variety of research and development activities aimed at improving numerical analysis, software design, algorithm effectiveness, visualization of large data sets, high-performance networks, and web technologies. Research results are published in peer-reviewed journals and help NCAR advance its overall research agenda.

The following links provide information on some of SCD's R&D efforts:

SCD Strategic Initiatives

Computational science research activities

• Computational science research activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Efforts in research frameworks and modeling infrastructure, software libraries development, technology tracking, collaboration, education and outreach
  
  
• SCD Computational Science Section
  Research activities in computational science, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, geosciences, and software engineering, technology tracking and benchmarking, and development of open source software packages and numerical libraries
  
  
• Earth System Modeling Framework
  A project to enable diverse scientific groups to leverage common software to solve routine computational problems

Data access and visualization research

• Community Data Portal
  A research project aimed at providing real-time data and improved access to retrospective data for UCAR/NCAR users around the world, and to develop new tools for exploring that data
  
  
• Data access and visualization activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Research efforts involving the Earth System Grid and the Virtual Exploratorium
  
  
• Data Support Section research activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Research in monitoring human-computer interaction literature, data archive development, and empirical usability testing
  
  
• Special projects of the SCD Data Support Section
  Links to a number of projects for which SCD maintains data

Networking research

• Networking technology research activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Research in networking and data communications technologies, configurations, equipment, and futures
  
  
• Web100
  A project to help users exploit 100% of available network bandwidth
  
  
• Net100
  A project to develop tools that enable computer operating systems to automatically tune network performance

Web technologies research

• Web portal research activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Research on enterprise information portals in the area of application objects, customization, authorization and authentication, and platform independence
  
  
• Web usability research activities from the SCD 2000 Annual Scientific Report
  Staying abreast of current trends on web usability, content delivery, appearance, and accessibility