CISL is a world leader in providing supercomputing and related resources for the geosciences community at NCAR, more than 60 UCAR member universities in the United States, and affiliates worldwide. Please see each resource's home page for detailed information about using that system.

HPC Systems

• Yellowstone: A 1.6-petaflops high-performance computing system with 74,592 processor cores and 149.2 terabytes of memory. Production computing operations will begin in the summer of 2012.
• Bluefire: NCAR's 77-teraflops IBM Power6 system used by the Climate Simulation Lab (CSL) and Community Computing Facilities.
• Janus: A Dell Linux cluster housed on the CU-Boulder campus, with a high-speed networking connection to NCAR's computing and data storage systems.
• Lynx: A Cray XT5m system deployed as a testing platform and available to NCAR users.

Storage Systems

• GLADE: The central GLADE file system allows users to access their data from both HPC and analysis systems.
• HPSS: CISL's High-Performance Storage System (HPSS) environment currently stores more than 12 PB of data in support of CISL computing facilities and NCAR research activities.
• MSS: CISL's venerable Mass Storage System (MSS) has been retired after more than 20 years of service. All MSS files are available in HPSS.

Data Analysis and Visualization

• Mirage and Storm: CISL operates two data analysis and visualization clusters, with software packages including NCL, Vapor, Matlab and IDL, for its user community.
• VisLab: NCAR's VisLab is an Access Grid site, capable of multi-site, multimedia meetings as well as a state-of-the-art scientific visualization environment capable of stereo projection.

Data Collections

• Research Data Archive (RDA): CISL develops and curates research data sets and maintains user-centered online access to the RDA.
• Community Data Portal (CDP): The CDP is a collection of earth science data sets from NCAR, UCAR, UOP, and participating organizations.
• Earth System Grid (ESG): The ESG integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and analysis servers located at numerous national centers to create a powerful environment for next-generation climate research.

Documentation

See the links above and the menus on the left side of your screen for documentation relating to individual systems and procedures and for information regarding support and training. To make suggestions for improving our end-user documentation, please use this form to send your comments. We appreciate your feedback.