// Conference Posters 

Each year, NCCS employees and partners showcase their work at conferences particularly SuperComputing, AGU, AMS, ECWMF. Topics include analytics, computing system capability and software upgrades, and scientific modeling. with challenges that solve computational problems

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// 2017 Projects 

Analytics & Visualization

Analyzing and Visualizing Earth Data at the Speed of Supercomput...

Laura Carriere
As the availability and volume of Earth data grow, researchers spend more time downloading and processing their data than doing science....

CREATE-IP and CREATE-V: Data and Services Update

Laura Carriere
To reduce the time and effort required by scientists to download and reformat data from numerous data providers, the NCCS has partnered...

GMAO GEOS Data in Motion

Brent Smith
The purpose of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Framework for Live User-Invoked Data (FLUID) is to provide applications...

The Earth Data Analytic Services (EDAS) Framework

Thomas Maxwell
Faced with unprecedented growth in Earth data volume and demand, NASA has developed the Earth Data Analytic Services (EDAS) framework, a...

The NASA Reanalysis Ensemble Service Advanced Capabilities for I...

Jian Li
NASA’s efforts to advance climate analytics-as-a-service are making new capabilities available to the research community: (1) A full-...

NCCS SYSTEMS

Exascale Cyberinfrastructure for NASA's Weather and Climat...

Dr. Dan Duffy
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) works closely with the NASA science community to push research boundaries and further our...

Cloud in a Container Deploying OpenStack

Hoot Thompson & Jonathan Mills
In 2017, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) deployed an operational, on-campus OpenStack cloud. The cloud is housed in a data...

Cybersecurity Machine Learning

Jordan Carabolla-Vega
Deploying and maintaining a high-performance computing facility such as the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) requires services to...

IOPS Galore Encore: Upgrading a Supercomputer's Metadata wi...

Jordan Robertson
The most recent wave of enhancements to the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputing cluster included an upgrade...

Learning from the Weather

Dan'l Pierce
Whether it leads to a bumper or paltry rice crop in Texas, severe drought heightening the wildfire risk in California, or a destructive...

The Only Constant Is Change—Evolution of an HPC Cluster

Bruce Pfaff
The Discover supercomputer cluster is the heart of the high-performance computing (HPC) services provided at the NASA Center for Climate...

Scientific Modeling

A Glimpse at the Future of Global Weather Prediction and Analysi...

Dr. William Putman
The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model provides a peek into the future of global weather prediction and analysis. Using the non-...

Scattering Properties of Mixed-Phase Hydrometeors

Craig Pelissier
One of the most fundamental and crucial quantities for accurate precipitation retrievals is the single-scattering property (SSP) of each...

Simulating the Growth of Poly-Crystal Snowflakes

Thomas Clune
Building on the previous success of a mono-crystal snowflake growth model, a team of NASA researchers has invented and implemented a...

The Benefits and Complexities of Operating Geographic Informatio...

Jim Shute
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center is building and maintaining an Enterprise GIS capability for...

Software & Frameworks

Containerizing the NASA Land Information System Framework

Garrison Vaughan
Developed by the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the Land Information System (LIS) is a high...

Task-Based HPC Scheduler for Scalable, Cross-Platform Software

Ariel Sherman
When writing complex high-performance computing (HPC) applications, a large amount of the coding and debugging time is not spent defining...

Understanding the Scalability and Computational Performance of G...

Dr. Hamid Oloso
The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) is a modular family of models primarily used by NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation...