Technology Development Division (TDD)

TDD Spotlight

Performance of the HOMME Dynamical Core in the Simulation of Rainfall: Real-Planet Study with CAM3.5
Performance of the HOMME Dynamical Core in the Simulation of Rainfall: Real-Planet Study with CAM3.5Researchers at NCAR and DOE laboratories have been working to ensure the CCSM is ready to fully utilize upcoming petascale computing platforms. The main bottleneck to petascale performance in the CCSM is the scalability of the atmospheric dynamical core. Learn more >


About TDD

The research activity within CISL enhances the computational infrastructure at NCAR and supports more efficient scientific computation and simulation. This research is necessary to maintain an innovative computational facility and to lead the geophysics community in incorporating new numerical methods and models. Given this broad priority, the research in CISL must span several disciplines and address computational science at many levels.

The Technology Development Division contains two sections: the Computer Science Section (CSS), and the Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section (VETS).

CSS

 

CSS conducts research in computational science and software engineering. CSS leads the technology tracking and benchmarking efforts for CISL. CSS also develops open source software packages and numerical libraries to make use of this research in atmosphere, ocean, and geoscience models. more »


VETS
VETS has a primary focus of advancing the knowledge development process. Activities span developing and delivering software tools for analysis and visualization, providing advanced visualization and collaboration environments, web engineering for all of UCAR, R&D endeavors in collaboratories, developing a new generation of data management and access, Grid R&D, novel visualization capabilities, and a sizable outreach effort. more »