CISL Annual Report 2005 > CISL research plans

CISL research: New algorithms, new tools

FY2006 research plans will continue to support the Laboratory's mission of innovation in high performance computing and bringing mathematical tools and developments in computer science to bear on geophysical problems. The research in IMAGe will involve new applications of data assimliation applied to NCAR weather and climate models, statistical methods for analyzing climate model experiments and extremes in weather, and the multiscale properties of geophysical fluids. The products of this research will be disseminated through several software projects maintained in IMAGe: (DART, R packages, and GASpAR).

Within SCD's Computational Science Section, numerical algorithms will be developed that anticipate emerging computer architectures and will be tested within the Computational Science Section's High Order Method Modeling Environment (HOMME) and the NCAR climate model. Research in SCD's Computational Science Section will remain focused on evaluating highly parallel supercomputer systems and parallel file systems, developing scalable, conservative dynamical cores, and architecting Grid-based Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) for geoscience computations.