NCAR Supercomputing Data Center Project

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NCAR Supercomputing Data Center Project

• An NCAR-led computing facility for the study of
  the Earth system
• May 30, 2006

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Project Review

• NCAR Mesa Lab computer facility power, cooling
  and floor space will be inadequate beyond the
  current procurement
• Science being restricted by focusing on capacity
  ahead of capability
• Facility concept 30,000 (initial to 60,000) sq.
  ft., 150,000 (to 300,000) sq. ft., 4 (to 24) MW
  redundant power, cooling, 20 year lifetime
• Phase 1 facility est. construction cost _at_ 50M to
  70M
• Such a facility would be a computational
  equivalent of the Hubble Telescope for geoscience
  simulation

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Schedule
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Discovery
Planning/Financing
Design
Construction

• Project plan development - Sep-Dec
• Community engagement - Ongoing
• Partnership development - Nov-Mar, down-select in
  April and June
• Engage National Science Foundation (GEO, OCI) -
  Ongoing
• Forge international collaborations (UK/NERC,
  ENES)
• Initiate facility building project Summer 2006
• Community workshop - September at NCAR
• Submit project prospectus to NSF Jan 2007
• First electrons Summer 2010

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An OpportunityNSFs Petascale Roadmap
Overarching Recommendation Establish a
Petascale Collaboratory for the Geosciences with
the mission to provide leadership-class
computational resources that will make it
possible to address, and minimize the time to
solution of, the most challenging problems facing
the geosciences.
www.joss.ucar.edu/joss_psg/meetings/petascale/
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NSFs Cyberinfrastructure Vision2006-2010
A petascale center linked with multiple 100
teraflop centers
Track-2 30m
Track-2 30m 100TF
Track-1 200m
1 Petaflop Sustained
Track-2 30m
Track-2 30m
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Geosciences HPC Research Consortium Concept
Other National Labs and Supercomputer Centers and
International Alliances
NSF Geosciences Research Community ATM, OCE,
EAR,
Minority Institution Resource Center
Earth Interiors Resource Center
Geosciences HPC Collaboratory Center
Energy Research Resource Center
Atmospheric Science Resource Center
NCAR Facility Partner
Hydrology, Energy, etc. Research Communities
Ocean Science Resource Center
Computational Science Resource Center
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Scientific Steering Committee

• Rick Anthes Meteorology, UCAR
• Rafael Bras Hydrology, MIT
• Guy Brasseur Atmospheric Science, Max Planck
  Institute, Hamburg
• Kelvin Droegemeier Atmospheric Science, OU
• Tamas Gombosi Space Science, U Michigan
• Gregory Jenkins Atmospheric Science, Howard
• Thomas Jordan Geophysics, USC
• David Maidment Hydrology, Univ. Texas
• Jean-Bernard Minster Seismology, SIO
• John Orcutt Oceanography, SIO
• Tim Palmer Weather and Climate, ECMWF
• Annick Pouquet Geophysical Turbulence, NCAR
• Jagadish Shukla Climate, COLA
• Paola Rizzoli Oceanography, MIT
• David Yuen Geophysics, UMN

NCAR committee

• Tim Killeen, Larry Winter, Katy Schmoll, Al
  Kellie, Lawrence Buja, Peter Fox, Aaron Anderson,
  Peter Backlund, Frank Bryan, Krista Laursen, Rich
  Loft, Jeff Reaves, Henry Tufo, Olga Wilhelmi,
  Michael Wiltberger

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Concluding remarks
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Contacts at NCAR

• Tim Killeen (killeen_at_ucar.edu) - NCAR Director
• Lawrence Buja (southern_at_ucar.edu) and Peter Fox
  (pfox_at_ucar.edu) are co-chairs of the NCAR project
  team
• Aaron Anderson (aaron_at_ucar.edu) is the computing
  facilities contact
• Jeff Reaves (jreaves_at_ucar.edu) is the financial/
  contracts contact