The SCD Vislab is a node on the AccessGrid, a framework of network and computing resources developed by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to foster geographically distributed scientific research.

Here, Tim Killeen, NCAR director; Don Middleton, SCD Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section manager; and Al Kellie, SCD director, meet virtually with colleages from four other institutions to discuss possible uses of the grid for the atmospheric sciences community.

Appearing on the AccessGrid screen, clockwise from lower right, are Rick Stevens, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory; Cliff Jacobs, NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences liaison to UCAR; Don Wuebbles, head of the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign; Dan Reed, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); and Bob Wilhelmson, professor of atmospheric sciences at NCSA.

Photo: Carlye Calvin -- UCAR