1. October 18, 2011 Utah NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center: Opportunities for Utah Researchers Bryan Shader Special Assistant to VP for Research University of Wyoming Rich Loft NCAR October 18, 2011

2. Utah Provide overview of NWSC Advertise some collaborative and EOT opportunities Advertise SiParCS Internship Program at NCAR Become more familiar with Utah research Goals

3. The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will provide the community dedicated petascale capabilities.

4. The NWSC Facility is near Cheyenne, Wyoming The NWSC Facility is near Cheyenne, Wyoming What it is: A new $70-million, 4.5 MW NSF supercomputing facility What it does: Will house petascale supercomputers and data storage systems for Earth System science research What it means: Greatly enhanced modeling capability for the community in climate and weather research Status: Construction was completed in August, 2011. System install January 2012, operational mid 2012.

5. Earth System Science Drivers Clouds – a major source of error Global Cloud Resolving Models Super-parameterization scheme Better Cloud Parameterizations Climate Change – Decadal Climate Prediction – Regional Climate Change Effects – Probability of Extreme Events Severe Weather – Hurricane Track and Intensity – Eyewall Precipitation and Winds – Probabilistic Forecasts

6. Supercomputing advances are allowing steadily improving fidelity with nature… Resolve ocean mesoscale eddies for climate studies Forecast Hurricanes with cloud resolving atmospheric processes Simulate solar flares faster than real time and resolve fine structure of corona’s B field Understand sunspot activity Ocean component of CCSM (Collins et al, 2006) Eddy-resolving POP (Maltrud & McClean,2005) Katrina Mobile Radar Image Katrina 62 hour 4 km WRF Forecast Sunspot Image Sunspot Simulation

7. Duration and/or Ensemble size Resolution Existing Computing Resources Complexity 1/12 0 Data Assimilation Augmented Computing Resources Balancing Science Goals with Computing Power

8. What’s in it for Utah? Allocations: Wyoming controls 20% of NSF-base funded resources Research Collaborations: The challenges and opportunities raised by the nexus of climate change & energy require the development of new collaborations EOT: Internship opportunities, visitor programs, HPC training, atmospheric data analysis workshops, and more

9. Wyoming’s 20% Share of NWSC represents a huge increase in EPSCoR HPC capabilities … On the latest (6/11) Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, Wyoming’s share on NWSC-1 alone is estimated to be… Larger than TACC’s Lonestar system The 28 th fastest computer in the world on that list The 14 th largest supercomputer in the US on that list The largest system in an EPSCoR state outside of Department of Energy facilities on that list The largest resource controlled by a university in the US on that list Of course, Moore’s Law will erode a bit over the next year, but still this will be a formidable capability when deployed! Reference: http://www.top500.org

10. Accessing NWSC Wyoming Allocations: Eligibility Projects must: Have scientific merit as evidenced by federal funding, or separate review Be in an Earth System science area of substantial interest (e.g. hydrology; sequestration, atmospheric science, ecology, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, computational geofluid dynamics) Include UW researchers as principal or co-principal investigator Directly or through collaboration strengthen UW’s research capacity. Strengthen of computational science capacity in EPSCoR or regional states Preference given to projects that

11. Accessing NWSC Wyoming Allocations Wyoming allocation is ~70 million GAUs/6 months Large allocations (> 200K GAUs) will be reviewed by Wyoming-NCAR Resource Advisory Committee (WRAP) First allocation requests due late February 2012 First allocations will be begin ~July 2012 Allocation information will be made available at http://www.cisl.ncar.edu Contact Bryan Shader (bshader@uwyo.edu) for more informationbshader@uwyo.edu

12. Sep. 23, 2011 FRCRC Symposium UW researchers will use the NWSC for research on topics including: Fluid DynamicsOil & Gas recovery CO 2 sequestration SeismologyHydrogeology Cloud formation Carbon & Water Cycles Wildfires Basic Research Numerical Analysis Complexity Theory Grid computing Algorithm development Data-driven dynamic applications

13. Possible UW Collaboration topics and researchers Atmospheric Science Cloud property retrievals from satellite, ground, and airborne radars and lidars (Zhien Wang) Tropospheric aerosols (Deshler) Stratospheric aerosols and chemistry (Deshler, Snider) Boundary layer meteorology (Geerts) Mesoscale dynamics and cloud physics (Geerts, Wang) Convective initiation (Parish) Airborne instrumentation

14. Possible collaborations Geology/Geophysics Paleoclimatology (Bryan Shuman) Geostatistics (Snehalata Huzubazar) Ye Zhang (Geohydrology)

15. Hydrology Fred Ogden: Water resources and environmental Hydrology, computational hydrology Scott Miller (Spatial Analysis and Landscape Systems) Felipe Pereira (Center for subsurface flow) Ye Zhang (Geohydrology) Fred Furtado, K.J. Reddy (Contaminant flow)

16. Possible Collaborations CFDs Dimitri Mavriplis: unstructured mesh methods for CFD Stefan Heinz: turbulence, combustion, stochastic modeling Jay Sitaraman: use of parallel and scalable overset grid based CFD methods for aerospace applications Ray Fertig: multi-scale modeling of composite materials Choung-Suk Han: Computational Mechanics; Sukky Jun: Multiscale/multiphysics modeling and simulations

17. Possible Collaborations HPC Craig Douglas: Data-driven, dynamical systems Dan Stanescu: Computational Aero-acoustics and Uncertainty Quantification Liqiang Wang: Design and analysis of parallel systems

18. 11-week Summer internship program – May 21 – August 3, 2012 Open to: – Upper division undergrads – Graduate students In disciplines such as: – Computer Science and Software Engineering – Mechanical Engineering – Applied Math and Statistics – Earth System Science Support: – Travel, Housing – 11 weeks salary – Conference travel and publication costs Number of interns selected: – Typically 15-20 interns participate For more information go to: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs SIParCS Class of 2011 Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science: Students work in NCAR’s Supercomputing Lab with mentors on challenging R&D projects