NWSC Construction

新世界建设

• 批准号: 1034857
• 负责人: Maura Hagan
• 金额: $ 4807.51万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NWSC; Construction

NCAR and partners in the State of Wyoming propose to build and operate a new supercomputing facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will house massively parallel petascale computers and mass data storage archives that will enable researchers in the geosciences to achieve dramatic increases in the resolution of Earth System Science models, improve the representations of modeled physical processes, run model simulations covering longer periods of time and produce better statistics. Regional climate simulations with nested grids at meteorological resolutions will become feasible, enabling scientists to investigate the connection between climate and hurricane frequency and strength, study the localized effects of regional climate change on agriculture and water supplies, and investigate numerous other computationally demanding Earth System processes.The proposed facility will have the power, space, and cooling capacity to support a 1.0 to 1.5 petaflops peak system with an expected data production rate of 23-35 petabytes per year by 2012. This will provide a 15- to 20-fold increase over computing resources currently available to the community at NCAR. This system will be integrated with the cyberinfrastructure (CI) of NSF's TeraGrid eXtreme Digital (XD), the Track-1 'Blue Waters' system, and the DataNet program. The facility will be well connected to computing facilities operated by other Federal agencies such as DOE, NOAA, and NASA as well as high-performance computing systems located at colleges and universities. The NWSC will be a showcase of sustainable design and construction, and will be a world-leader in energy-efficient cyberinfrastructure. Broader impacts of the proposed work include the deployment of high-performance CI within the NWSC that will enable researchers to perform high-resolution simulations of weather phenomena, global and regional climate, coastal oceans, sunspots, subsurface flow, and more. Earth System research and education will be transformed by the NWSC, as the next generation of Earth science researchers and computational scientists will be attracted by the importance of the problem and the scale of the facilities available to them. Current and planned education, outreach, and training programs built around the facility will help to broaden the impact of the NWSC project on both regional and national scales. Integration of the NWSC with other NSF high-performance CI will provide important linkages with other resource providers and will directly support NSF's vision of a transformative national petascale cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering. Finally, the NWSC has the potential to contribute to economic development in the State of Wyoming in the form of well-paying jobs, workforce training opportunities, and in the transformation of the state into a destination of choice for other high-technology enterprises. Through the facility partnership with Wyoming, these benefits can be extended to other EPSCoR states as well.

NCAR和怀俄明州的合作伙伴建议在怀俄明州夏安建造和运营新的超级计算设施。 NCAR-WYOMING超级计算中心（NWSC）将容纳巨大的平行性佩斯卡尔计算机和群众数据存储档案，这些档案将使地球科学的研究人员能够实现地球系统科学模型的分辨率急剧增加，改善建模物理过程的表示，运行模型模型涵盖更长的时间和更好的时间统计信息。在气象分辨率下具有嵌套网格的区域气候模拟将变得可行，使科学家能够调查气候与飓风频率和强度之间的联系，研究区域气候变化对农业和水供应的本地化影响，并调查许多其他计算的地球系统过程。到2012年，每年23-35 pb，这将为NCAR社区提供的计算资源提供15至20倍的增长。该系统将与NSF的Teragrid Extreme Digital（XD），Track-1“ Blue Waters”系统和DataNet程序的网络基础结构（CI）集成。该设施将与其他联邦机构（如DOE，NOAA和NASA）以及位于大学和大学的高性能计算系统运营的计算设施有很好的联系。 NWSC将是可持续设计和建设的展示，并将成为节能网络基础设施领域的领导者。拟议工作的更广泛的影响包括在NWSC中部署高性能CI，这将使研究人员能够对天气现象，全球和地区气候，沿海海洋，日光点，地下流动等进行高分辨率模拟。 NWSC将改变地球系统研究和教育，因为下一代地球科学研究人员和计算科学家将被问题的重要性和可用设施的规模所吸引。当前和计划中的教育，外展和培训计划围绕该设施建立，将有助于扩大NWSC项目对区域和国家规模的影响。 NWSC与其他NSF高性能CI的集成将与其他资源提供商提供重要联系，并将直接支持NSF对科学和工程技术的变革性国家Petascale Cyber​​infrasture的愿景。最后，NWSC有可能以高薪工作，劳动力培训机会以及将国家转变为其他高科技企业的首选目的地，为怀俄明州的经济发展做出贡献。通过与怀俄明州的设施合作伙伴关系，这些好处也可以扩展到其他EPSCOR国家。