| AccessGrid | Multi-site video teleconferences in NCAR's VisLab and at Foothills Lab |
| Analysis servers | High-end servers available 24x7 for both interactive and batch data analysis and data-processing |
| Applications and analysis software | Numerous data analysis applications are available for use on our high-end analysis servers |
| Authentication services | Centralized authentication services that authenticate UCAS accounts and passwords for numerous applications |
| Cisco CallManager | Web interface to the Cisco IP phones |
| CISL Help Desk | The CISL Help Desk is the first point of contact for all support requests |
| CommuniGate | Web interface to the CISL Mail Server |
| Community Data Portal (CDP) | Search geoscience datasets from across NCAR and UOP divisions and programs, as well as other institutions |
| Computational Science Services | CISL Customer Support can escalate computational science issues to the Computational Science Section (CSS) |
| Computer Desktop Services | Desktop computers are provided to CISL staff and maintained and supported |
| Computing centers | CISL operates the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center and the Mesa Lab Computing Center. |
| Confluence enterprise wiki | Build web sites collaboratively with your team using the Confluence enterprise wiki. |
| Consulting Services | Consulting on a broad range of high-end computing topics |
| CRYPTOCard and YubiKey | Secure CISL services requiring a one-time password are accessed using a CRYPTOCard keypad or YubiKey token. |
| Domain Name Service (DNS) | UCAR-wide domain name service returns IP numbers for server names |
| Drupal Content Management System | Drupal is an open source CMS for building highly dynamic websites. It is extensible through a vast array of available modules, making most web development tasks a matter of pointing and clicking rather than coding. |
| Earth System Grid (ESG) | Integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and analysis servers located at numerous national labs and research centers |
| Centralized email relay and related services, including IMAP and POP | |
| File servers | Active Directory, NFS and Samba fileservers |
| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | Provides Internet file sharing between UCAR staff and external collaborators |
| Front Range Gigapop (FRGP) | CISL's NETS group provides high-bandwidth Internet connectivity in collaboration with institutions along the Denver/Boulder area front range |
| Gatekeepers | Shield NCAR/UCAR computers from intruders by authenticating users who need to access systems inside the UCAR security perimeter |
| GRID-BGC | This project is creating a grid-compute architecture for terrestrial biogeochemical modeling |
| High-end computing | CISL is a world leader in supercomputing with several entries in the Top 500 list as well as numerous high performance Linux clusters |
| High Performance Storage System (HPSS) | More than 100 petabytes of tape-based storage capacity with automated retrieval |
| License server | Multi-user software licenses (eg. PGI compiler, Mathematica) are stored and checked out as needed by users |
| Mailguard | Mailguard prevents spam using content filtering |
| Mailman mailing lists | Mailman provides email-based group discussions and distribution lists |
| Mathematical software | A number of FORTRAN mathematical programs are available for solving a variety of equations useful in computer modeling of geophysical processes |
| MySQL Database | Make your websites and web applications more dynamic with a database backend |
| NCAR Command Language (NCL) | A free interpreted language designed for scientific data processing and visualization |
| NCAR Graphics | Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization |
| Networking | CISL's NETS group maintains and develops the UCAR network and provides high-bandwidth Internet connectivity |
| Opinio web surveys | Create, deliver, and analyze results of your own online surveys via an easy to use web interface |
| People Search | Search the UCAR phone directory and manage staff information, including account requests and spam blocklist filtering |
| PyNGL | Python interface to the NCL Graphics Library |
| Visualization programs | Access high-end visual computing platforms from your office using TCP/IP-based remote image delivery services |
| Research Data Archive (RDA) | Access a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use. |
| Search engines | UCAR-specific Google search and Verity Ultraseek internal document search |
| Security | The Security Team monitors the UCAR network and servers for intrusions and provides the UCAR Central Authentication Services |
| Spam filtering | CISL provides blocklist filtering and Mailguard content filtering to prevent spam from reaching the email inboxes of UCAR staff |
| Streaming video server | Video streaming in QuickTime, Real and Windows Media Player formats |
| Subversion | Software version control using Subversion, the popular CVS replacement |
| Systems Accounting Manager | SAM enables supercomputer users to manage key system preferences and provides reports on charges for use of computing and storage resources. |
| Supercomputing | CISL is a world leader in supercomputing with several entries in the Top 500 list as well as numerous high performance Linux clusters |
| Surveys | Create, deliver, and analyze results of your own online surveys via an easy to use web application called Opinio |
| Tape Readers: 7-track and 9-track | One 7-track and two 9-track tape drives are available for accessing historical data |
| Telephones | UCAR phones use the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and Cisco IP phones which are configurable via a web interface |
| UCAR Central Authentication Services (UCAS) |
Centralized authentication service which authenticates UCAS accounts and passwords for numerous applications and enables users to change a password |
| VAPOR | The Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers is a visual data discovery environment capable of handling terascale size data sets |
| Virtual Private Network (VPN) | Remote and wireless network users can utilize the VPN to access internal UCAR servers |
| Virus blocking | The UCAR email relay scans incoming and outgoing email attachments and quarantines messages with viruses for 10 days in Maia Mailguard, then deletes them |
| Vis5d+ | NCAR Extensions have been incorporated into Vis5d+ which is now a SourceForge project |
| Visualization applications | Numerous visualization applications are available for use on our high-end analysis servers |
| Visualization Gallery | The Visualization Gallery showcases scientific animations created by NCAR and UOP scientists and their collaborators |
| Visualization Lab (VisLab) | The NCAR Visualization Lab is located on the Mesa campus and provides high-end stereo visualization of scientific animations as well as Access Grid video teleconferencing |
| Voicemail | Voicemail is accessible from UCAR-standard Cisco IP telephones |
| Web authentication | Provides an API for web developers to integrate UCAS and OTP authentication into their web applications |
| Web hosting | Centralized web hosting and related services for all UCAR, NCAR and UOP divisions and programs |
| Web proxy | The WEG can proxy external users to internal web servers to provide greater security than making a web server an exposed host |
| WebMail | Remotely access your email account on the CISL email server |
| Web traffic statistics | View web traffic statistics for any WEG-hosted site using Webalizer or prepare drill-down reports for requested sites with Sawmill |
| Wiki | Build web sites collaboratively with your team using the Confluence enterprise wiki. |
| Wireless network | Wireless networking is available in conference rooms at all UCAR campuses as well as many office areas |