Acquisition of an Earth System Modeling Facility for Coupled Climate, Chemistry, and Biogeochemistry Studies

获取用于气候、化学和生物地球化学耦合研究的地球系统模拟设施

• 批准号: 0321380
• 负责人: Charles Zender
• 金额: $ 77.35万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Earth; System; Modeling; Facility

This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant supports the purchase of a high-performance computer and storage system as the centerpiece for the University of California-Irvine (UCI) Earth System Modeling Facility (ESMF). The UCI ESMF will be devoted to the integration, synthesis, and analysis of large models and datasets required to advance fundamental understanding of the coupled physical climate, chemistry, and biogeochemical cycles of the Earth system. It is tailored for the merging of ESM components (e.g., atmosphere, oceans, chemistry, biology, land hydrology) that normally consume the available computing resources of individual research projects. Although primarily a development facility for faculty and graduate researchers, the ESMF will produce the decade-long simulations of the coupled system that are needed for basic scientific studies. In terms of computing power, the ESMF fits between individual PI and school-based resources and national modeling facilities but in terms of development it is unique. The UCI ESMF fills a niche, allowing faculty, post-graduates, and students to work with high-performance computing in an environment where they control the computer and the code development. The system being purchased is an IBM 64 processor p655 Power4 system, similar to, but (much) smaller than, the fastest production systems at the National Center for Atmospheric ResearchBroader impacts include use of results from Earth system models to better inform environmental and energy policy decision-making and education and training of students in Earth system modeling, including students from a nearby Minority Serving Institution, California State University at Bakersfield (CSUB).

这项重大研究仪器（MRI）拨款支持购买高性能计算机和存储系统，作为加州大学欧文分校（UCI）地球系统建模设施（ESMF）的核心。UCI ESMF将致力于集成，综合和分析大型模型和数据集，以促进对地球系统耦合的物理气候，化学和地球化学循环的基本理解。它是为ESM组件的合并而定制的（例如，大气、海洋、化学、生物学、陆地水文学），这些领域通常会消耗单个研究项目的可用计算资源。虽然ESMF主要是为教师和研究生研究人员提供的开发设施，但它将产生基础科学研究所需的耦合系统的长达十年的模拟。在计算能力方面，ESMF介于个人PI和基于学校的资源与国家建模设施之间，但在发展方面，它是独一无二的。UCI ESMF填补了一个空白，允许教师，研究生和学生在他们控制计算机和代码开发的环境中使用高性能计算。 正在购买的系统是IBM 64处理器p655 Power4系统，类似于，但（远）小于，在国家大气研究中心最快的生产系统更广泛的影响包括使用地球系统模型的结果，以更好地为环境和能源政策决策提供信息，以及对学生进行地球系统建模的教育和培训，包括来自附近少数民族服务机构的学生，位于贝克斯菲尔德的加州州立大学。