Production cyberinfrastructure

This section describes CISL's plans and accomplishments in operating and developing NCAR's production cyberinfrastructure.

Production cyberinfrastructure plans

Production cyberinfrastructure: ICESS procurement

Cybersecurity plans

Mass Storage System (MSS) improvement plans

Storage Area Network (SAN) deployment plans for CDP/ESG

Network engineering and telecommunications plans

Data analysis and visualization plans

Experimental computing systems: Blue Gene/L

Production cyberinfrastructure accomplishments

Production cyberinfrastructure accomplishments highlight: Bluevista deployment

Cybersecurity accomplishments

Production Linux clusters

Mass Storage System (MSS) accomplishments

Storage Area Network (SAN) deployment accomplishments

Network engineering and telecommunications accomplishments

Data analysis and visualization accomplishments

Experimental computing systems: Blue Gene/L

	FY2005 Annual Report
NCAR Annual Report CISL Annual Report Computing facility Production cyberinfrastructure Earth System Knowledge Environment CISL research


Bluevista, a new supercomputer based on the IBM POWER5 processor and the High Performance Switch communication technology, effectively doubled the high-end computing resources available at NCAR while halving the turnaround time of most applications.