NOAA HPCC Program

Briefing to CASC

March 4, 2004

Bill Turnbull

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Overview

• Background

• Partnerships– Joint Institutes

• The rest of the story…

Advanced Information Technology NOAA’s Relationships

with Other AgenciesDARPA

Basic technology research;

cutting-edge network

technologies; long-term research

NSF Connectivity &

technology delivery to research universities;

Internet2;close ties with

academia;scientific

applications

NASA Applied research

for end-to-end systems

development and applications prototyping

NIST Standards

development;industry testbedsNOAA

Advanced Environmental Research

and applications Advanced products and

services delivered to

users

Advanced Information Technology

R&D

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NOAA Mission Goals

• Weather and Water

• Climate

• Ecosystems

• Commerce and Transportation

IT Research for NOAA Missions

Seasonal-Interannual Climate: Distributed Collaboration Visualizing the environment

Real-time Collaboration: Internet-@ Sea, OceanShare

Accelerate information technology development to

revolutionize NOAA missions today.

Fisheries Model Analysis: FOCI models of Pollack larvae in Shelikof Strait, Alaska

Hazardous Spill Response: Anywhere, anytime connectivity

Computation and Access to Data: Satellites, Radar, Aircraft, In situ, Models

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Program Strategy -High-end Computing

• High End Computing and Communication– Develop skills, algorithms, and techniques to

fully utilize advanced computing for improved environmental understanding and prediction

• Partnerships

• Seed knowledge

– Support acquisition and use of High Performance Scalable Systems for research

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Resources

• Forecast Systems Laboratory – Boulder CO– Weather Research

• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory – Princeton, NJ– Climate Research

• National Centers for Environmental Prediction– Weather Forecasting– Model Development– Backup

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Partnership focus

• Frameworks– Weather –

• WRF (Weather Research and Forecast)

• NCAR

• Many others

– Climate• ESMF (Earth System Modeling Framework)

• NASA, NCAR, DOE, U MI, MIT, UCLA, …

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Joint Institutes

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Joint Institutes

• CIFAR - Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, Fairbanks, AK• CIASTA - Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial

Applications, Las Vegas/Reno, NV• CICAR - Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research• CICOR - Cooperative Institute of Climate and Ocean Research, Woods Hole,

MA• CILER - Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, Ann

Arbor, MI• CIMAS - Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL• CIMMS - Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman,

OK• CIRA - Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO• CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder,

CO

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Joint Institutes

• CIAMS - Cooperative Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies, College Station, TX

• CITM - Cooperative Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Tallahassee, FL• CICS - Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies, College Park, MD• CIRP - Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, Salt Lake City,UT• CIPSU - Cooperative Institute at Pennsylvania State University• JIMAR - Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI• JIMO - Joint Institute for Marine Observations, La Jolla, CA• JISAO - Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle,

Washington• CIMSS – Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison,

WI

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Supporting Activities

• Networking – I2– IPv6– Wireless

• IT R&D– Remote collaboration– Integrated distributed data access– Ubiquitous information access & triage

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Futures