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
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
Publisher's Version of Record
OpenSky Citable URL https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d74j0f99
OpenSky Listing View on OpenSky
CISL Affiliations CISLAODEPT, OSD

Back to our listing of publications.