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story/photo of the week: November 19, 2004
SCD highlights science, supercomputing at SC2004
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SCD staff presented leading-edge atmospheric
research and emerging information technologies in the NCAR/SCD research
exhibit at SC2004, held this year in Pittsburgh. Larger
photo and caption
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Twenty-six staff members
from SCD represented NCAR at SC2004,
the world's leading conference on high-performance computing, networking,
and storage, held this year in Pittsburgh from 6–12 November at
the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
SCD produced and staffed the NCAR/SCD research exhibit, which
showcased several large-scale efforts that are helping to develop a better
understanding of our planet. They also demonstrated how emerging technologies
are being used to create environments for scientific knowledge development.
These technologies include Grid-based computing and knowledge-management
systems, as well as tools for data analysis and visualization.
Specific projects highlighted included:
- The Community
Climate System Model 3, a general-circulation climate model developed
at NCAR in collaboration with researchers at universities and laboratories
across the country
- The DOE-Earth System Grid
(ESG), which integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and
analysis servers at national labs and research centers to create an
environment for climate research
- The Earth System Modeling Framework
(ESMF), a collaborative effort to build a high-performance software
infrastructure to increase ease of use, portability, and interoperability
in Earth science applications
- The Grid Biogeochemical Modeling
and Analysis Environment (GridBGC), a grid-compute architecture
for terrestrial biogeochemical modeling
- The
High-Order Method Modeling Environment (HOMME), a scalable, spectral-element-based
atmospheric dynamical core
- Network research, including the National
LambdaRail, the Web100
and Net100 projects, and the Network
Path and Application Diagnosis project
- VAPoR,
a project that is developing tools to visualize very large, time-varying
scientific datasets
- The
Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO), a scalable environment
for searching, integrating, and analyzing databases distributed over
the Internet
SC04 also provided many opportunities for SCD to meet with vendors,
attend technical presentations, and explore the latest innovations in
high-end computing, information architectures, data storage, analysis
and visualization, scientific applications, and distributed systems.
For more information, see:
Photo: Don Middleton, NCAR/SCD
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