Other Work We Do Besides Deep
Thunder
We haved worked in a number of related fields to our
efforts in developing Deep Thunder. These include parallelization,
benchmarking and optimization of simulation codes, atmospheric chemistry
and dynamics, space physics, and data analysis, management and visualization.
For information and pointers to a few of these topics,
please visit Lloyd
Treinish's web site, /people/l/lloydt
Currently we are working on two collaborative projects with university groups.
The first is with a National Science Foundation
Engineering Research Center at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst called the
Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere or CASA.
They are developing a new-class of weather radar systems to do precise
and detailed observations of the lower troposphere to enable significant improvements
in short-term forecasting. As part of IBM's partnership with this project,
we are working on problems of visualization, data representation and applications of the
data from these radars.
The second effort is with the Latin American Grid or
LA Grid. They are developing a computational grid infrastructure to enable
collaboration, education and workforce development between the United States, Latin
American and Spain. As part of IBM's partnership with this project, we are working
on problems associated with hurricane impact forecasting and dissemination.
There is also a presentation
about past work with Florida State University on global and regional spectral
models primarily for tropical weather. That activity was in the news
because of their very accurate predictions of hurricanes during the summer
of 1999 (e.g., Dennis, Floyd).
As an example of the collaboration
with the China Meteorological Society, here
is a paper on the porting, parallelization and optimization of one
of their modelling codes for the IBM RS/6000 SP.
Additional material will be posted here in the near future....
lloydt@us.ibm.com
Last updated October 5, 2006
