Computing Infrastructure
RAL's computing infrastructure relies on a growing infrastructure of rack-mounted data servers and parallel computing clusters attached to large RAID storage systems. As the computational capacity of RAL and its computing infrastructure increases, so does the need to scale to larger, networked data storage technologies. These technologies will represent a significant area of technology growth for RAL in the immediate future.
About RAL's Technology Areas
Human activities are causing large-scale changes in the Earth system. At the same time, advances in scientific understanding, Earth system modeling, and computational and observational technology hold the promise of an exciting new era for Earth system discovery and understanding.
NCAR’s activities as an integrator, innovator, and community builder are contributing to the development of a predictive Earth system science that can help sustain Earth’s habitability, improve environmental quality, safeguard human health, reduce the impacts of natural disasters, and increase economic productivity.
Weather and climate prediction is one of the most computationally intensive activities in all of science.