NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) Project Office (NPO)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。几十年来，美国国家大气研究中心（NCAR）一直是大气及相关科学界高性能计算（HPC）、数据存储资源、软件工程和可视化工具的主要提供者。自20世纪60年代以来，NCAR的超级计算资源一直存放在NCAR梅萨实验室。由于电力和其他方面的限制，该设备很快将无法支持研究人员开发和运行日益复杂的气候、天气和地球系统模型所需的高性能高性能计算和数据存储系统，因此该设备正在接近过时。UCAR （NCAR的管理组织）和怀俄明州的一些实体（包括大学和怀俄明州）已经建立了合作伙伴关系，在怀俄明州夏延附近建造一个新的设施，即NCAR-怀俄明州超级计算中心（NWSC）。预计NWSC将于2011年投入使用。该合同将在项目的设计、建造和调试阶段为NCAR运营的NWSC项目办公室（NPO）提供支持。NPO将对项目的有效规划、设计和实施至关重要，确保为政府和其他利益相关者提供最佳价值，提供清晰、集中的成本和时间表控制，并最大限度地提高科学界的未来能力。NPO的一个主要目标是确保NWSC成为一个环境可持续发展的设施，成为能源效率和绿色技术的展示。NWSC将支持NSF的网络基础设施愿景和基金会为科学和工程创建国家千万亿级网络基础设施的努力。它将成为大气和相关科学社区的超级计算设施，为美国大气和相关科学研究人员提供他们迫切需要的工具，以保持国际竞争力。它将提供千万亿级的计算资源，以满足日益复杂的高分辨率地球系统模型的需求，这些模型正在开发中，以解决我们今天面临的一些最紧迫的科学问题。该项目是美国研究和学术机构、私营企业以及地方、州和联邦政府之间独特的、变革性的伙伴关系。该设施在怀俄明州的建设将支持该国该地区的智力和网络基础设施能力建设，与许多其他EPSCoR州一样，该地区传统上在网络基础设施发展方面被忽视。与当地社区的密切联系将确保在NWSC进行的建模工作包括研究项目，这些研究项目将有助于更好地理解直接影响该州人民的重要科学问题。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has for several decades been the principal provider of high-performance computing (HPC), data storage resources, software engineering and visualization tools for the atmospheric and related sciences community. NCAR's supercomputing resources have been housed in the NCAR Mesa Laboratory since the 1960s. This facility is now approaching obsolescence as power and other limitations mean it will soon be unable to support the high-power HPC and data-storage systems that researchers need in order to develop and run increasingly sophisticated models of the climate, weather and Earth systems. UCAR (NCAR's managing organization) and a group of Wyoming entities that includes the University and State of Wyoming have formed a partnership to construct a new facility, the NCAR- Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC), near Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is anticipated that the NWSC will become operational during 2011. This award will support the NWSC Project Office (NPO), operated by NCAR, during the design, construction and commissioning phases of the project. The NPO will be essential for the effective planning, design and implementation of the project, ensuring best value for the government and other stakeholders, providing clear, centralized control of costs and schedules, and maximizing the future capabilities available to the scientific community. A key objective of the NPO is to ensure that the NWSC is an environmentally sustainable facility, becoming a showcase of energy efficiency and green technologies.The NWSC will support NSF's cyberinfrastructure vision and the Foundation's efforts to create a national petascale cyberinfrastructure for the sciences and engineering. It will be a supercomputing facility for the atmospheric and related sciences community that will provide U.S. researchers in the atmospheric and related sciences with the tools they urgently need in order to remain internationally competitive. It will provide petascale computing resources equal to the demands of the increasingly complex, high resolution Earth System models that are being developed to address some of the most pressing scientific questions facing us today. The project is a unique and transformative partnership between U.S. research and academic institutions, private industry, and local, state, and federal governments. Construction of the facility in Wyoming will support intellectual and cyberinfrastructure capacity-building in an area of the country that, like many other EPSCoR states, has traditionally been neglected in terms of cyberinfrastructure development. Close ties to the local community will ensure that modeling work undertaken at the NWSC includes research projects that will lead to a better understanding of important scientific questions that directly impact people in the State.