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NOAA HPCC Program. Briefing to CASC March 4, 2004 Bill Turnbull. Overview. Background Partnerships Joint Institutes The rest of the story…. Advanced Information Technology NOAA’s Relationships with Other Agencies. Advanced Information Technology R&D.
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NOAA HPCC Program Briefing to CASC March 4, 2004 Bill Turnbull
Overview • Background • Partnerships • Joint Institutes • The rest of the story…
Advanced Information Technology NOAA’s Relationships with Other Agencies Advanced Information Technology R&D DARPA 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 testbeds NOAA Advanced Environmental Research and applications Advanced products and services delivered to users
NOAA Mission Goals • Weather and Water • Climate • Ecosystems • Commerce and Transportation
Accelerate information technology development to revolutionize NOAA missions today. IT Research for NOAA Missions Real-time Collaboration: Internet-@ Sea, OceanShare Hazardous Spill Response: Anywhere, anytime connectivity Seasonal-Interannual Climate: Distributed Collaboration Visualizing the environment Fisheries Model Analysis: FOCI models of Pollack larvae in Shelikof Strait, Alaska Computation and Access to Data: Satellites, Radar, Aircraft, In situ, Models
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 28 August 2003
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
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, …
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
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
Supporting Activities • Networking • I2 • IPv6 • Wireless • IT R&D • Remote collaboration • Integrated distributed data access • Ubiquitous information access & triage