SCD News: September 29, 2005
Al Kellie, director of NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, welcomes participants to CAS 2005. |
E ighty-five atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, modelers, and high-performance computing experts from 12 countries attended the eighth biannual Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences workshop, held Sept. 11-15, 2005 in Annecy, France. See the photo gallery
NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) organized the conference, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Co-sponsors were Cray Research, NEC, SGI, Intel, Linux Network, StorageTek, IBM, and AMD.
The purpose of the conference was to exchange information between weather and climate computing centers from around the globe and to examine and discuss the role and utility of advanced technologies.
Discussion topics included:
Talks and presentations from CAS 2005 are online at:
http://www.scd.ucar.edu/dir/CAS2K5/final_agenda2005.html
NCAR's Scientific Computing Division organized the first CAS fifteen years ago with help from the German High-Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research (DKRZ) and other high-performance computing sites. At that time, the main purpose of CAS was to review the capability and computational requirements of state-of-the-art models. Since then, the scope of the conference has widened to encompass all aspects of the end-to-end computing environment, including computer architectures, numerical methods, software frameworks, grid computing, portals, and terascale data issues.
The first CAS, CAS '90, took place at Salishan, Oregon. CAS '92 was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, followed by CAS '94 in Monterey, California, and CAS '96 in Washington, D.C. At the fifth CAS, CAS '98, the conference moved for the first time to the Imperial Palace Hotel in Annecy, France where it was held again in 2001, 2003, and 2005.
For details on this year's conference, including information on speakers, participants, and presentations, see the CAS 2005 home page: http://www.scd.ucar.edu/dir/CAS2K5/index.html
A gallery of conference photos is available at: http://www.scd.ucar.edu/news/05/lead/cas2005
Lake Annecy, France, site of the eighth Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences conference, CAS 2005. |
Photos: Janice Kauvar, Tom Bettge
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