The Consulting Services Group (CSG) is part of the NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) User Services Section (USS). CSG's focus is on assisting users of the high-performance computing facilities, including computation, data analysis, data post-processing, visualization, large-scale data sharing, and mass storage.

Several ways to contact us are shown above.

Mission statement

CSG works to enhance scientific workflows by providing the research community with porting assistance, documentation, and effective strategies for use of high-performance computing resources.

Computing assistance

Consulting assistance includes the following topics:

• UNIX and high performance operating systems
• Fortran 77 and 90, C and C++, Java
• Debugging
• High Performance Storage System
• Parallel programming
• Networking and file transfer
• Compilers
• Math libraries
• Postprocessing applications, visualization, and data formats
• Batch job submission
• Optimization
• User training

Consulting Services Group personnel

 

From left: Dan Nagle, Si Liu, Dick Valent, Siddhartha Ghosh, Davide Del Vento, Rory Kelly.