March 6, 1998

DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program has announced that it will fund a joint climate research project between NERSC and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) to investigate how widely used climate models can be run effectively and efficiently on massively parallel processing supercomputers. NERSC will probably focus work initially on the Modular Ocean Model developed at the GFDL, and investigate additional models in future years.

The proposal looked at the bottlenecks that have prevented the effective and efficient use of state-of-art scalable systems for climate research, then proposed developing new computing technologies to eliminate the bottlenecks. NERSC will work closely with the model developers at GFDL to incorporate the improvements into the models.