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CISL Director's message
CISL Accomplishments in FY2007 and plans for FY2008
Strategic priority: Expand the capability and capacity of NCAR supercomputing facilities
Supporting projects:
Highlight project: Plan to expand new NCAR supercomputing facility with Wyoming partners
Reintroduction of liquid cooling for high performance computing
Followup reports on FY2006 facilities plans that are not featured this year:
Strategic priority: Cyberinfrastructure procurement and deployment
Supporting projects:
Highlight project: Breakthrough Science using blueice
Mass Storage System (MSS) improvement
Network engineering and telecommunications
Data analysis and visualization advancements
Highlight project: TeraGrid integration
Followup reports on FY2006 cyberinfrastructure plans that are not featured this year:
Strategic priority: Research in computational science and math for geophysics: TDD and IMAGe
Supporting projects:
IMAGe research: New algorithms, tools, and geophysical models
Geophysical statistics project
Geophysical turbulence program
Turbulence science: Numerical algorithms and code development
Highlight project: IMAGe theme for 2007: Statistics for numerical models
Numerical methods: Application of radial basis functions to modeling
Adaptive-mesh grid techniques for climate modeling on millennial time scales
Scalable numerical methods for partial differential equations
CISL research: Computational science
Followup reports on FY2006 research plans that are not featured this year:
Strategic priority: Toward an Earth system knowledge environment
Supporting projects:
The Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET)
The Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO)
The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS)
Highlight project: Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and ESMF-based initiatives
The Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiative and the Community Data Portal
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
Bringing new functionality to data visualization using Google Earth
Chronopolis: Federated digital preservation across space and time
Community tools and frameworks for geoscientific analysis and visualization
Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Research (VAPOR)
Followup reports on FY2006 Earth System Knowledge Environment plans that are not featured this year:
Strategic priority: Cultivating a scientifically engaged citizenry: Education and outreach
Supporting projects: