NCAR Supercomputing: Tackling climate change concerns through facility efficiency
Unger, H. M., Andersen, A. H.. (2008). NCAR Supercomputing: Tackling climate change concerns through facility efficiency. Zerodowntime
| Title | NCAR Supercomputing: Tackling climate change concerns through facility efficiency |
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| Genre | Article |
| Author(s) | H. Marijke Unger, Aaron H. Andersen |
| Abstract | The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), perched at the foot of the Rocky Mountains overlooking Boulder, Colorado, is home to a supercomputing facility that serves the atmospheric sciences community. Designed by world-renowned architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1966, the facility--known as the NCAR Mesa Laboratory (ML)--housed some of NCAR's first supercomputers, including a CDC 6600 with circuitry designed by Seymour Cray. It had a clock speed of 10 MHz, less than one megabyte of memory, and a peak performance of 3 megaflops. Today, the ML computer room has grown by 7,500 square feet and has multiple supercomputing class and cluster systems that regularly sustain just under 1 teraflop with over 90% system utilization. This computing power produces 40 to 50 terabytes of data per month. |
| Publication Title | Zerodowntime |
| Publication Date | Aug 20, 2008 |
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| OpenSky Citable URL | https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d74j0f99 |
| OpenSky Listing | View on OpenSky |
| CISL Affiliations | CISLAODEPT, OSD |