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提议在怀俄明州的夏延建造和运营一个新的超级计算设施。NCAR-Wyoming超级计算中心（NWSC）将容纳大规模并行千万亿次计算机和海量数据存储档案，使地球科学研究人员能够大幅提高地球系统科学模型的分辨率，改善建模物理过程的表示，运行覆盖更长时间的模型模拟并产生更好的统计数据。采用气象分辨率的嵌套网格进行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供水的局部影响，并调查许多其他计算要求很高的地球系统过程。以及支持1.0至1.5 petaflops峰值系统的冷却能力，预计到2012年数据生产率将达到每年23-35 petabyte。这将使NCAR社区目前可用的计算资源增加15到20倍。该系统将与NSF的TeraGrid eXtreme Digital（XD）的网络基础设施（CI）、Track-1“Blue沃茨”系统和DataNet计划集成。该设施将很好地连接到其他联邦机构，如能源部，NOAA和NASA以及位于学院和大学的高性能计算系统运行的计算设施。NWSC将成为可持续设计和建设的展示，并将成为节能网络基础设施的世界领导者。拟议工作的更广泛影响包括在NWSC内部署高性能CI，这将使研究人员能够对天气现象、全球和区域气候、沿海海洋、太阳黑子、地下水流等进行高分辨率模拟。地球系统研究和教育将被NWSC改变，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他们可用的设施的规模所吸引。目前和计划的教育，推广和围绕该设施建立的培训计划将有助于扩大NWSC项目在区域和国家范围内的影响。NWSC与其他NSF高性能CI的整合将提供与其他资源提供者的重要联系，并将直接支持NSF为科学和工程提供变革性的国家千万亿次网络基础设施的愿景。最后，NWSC有潜力为怀俄明州的经济发展做出贡献，提供高薪工作、劳动力培训机会，并将该州转变为其他高科技企业的首选目的地。通过与怀俄明州的设施合作，这些好处也可以扩展到其他EPSCoR州。