CISL Technology Development Division (TDD)
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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 three sections: the Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section (ESMI), the Computer Science Section (CSS), and the Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section (VETS).
ESMI supports a collaborative effort building high-performance, flexible software for Earth science applications. This innovative software infrastructure allows different weather, climate, and data-assimilation components to operate together on many different platforms, from laptops to supercomputers. The framework lets scientists, software developers, weather forecasters, and climate modelers share codes more efficiently and reuse them in a variety of applications.
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.
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.
