Computing

Focus Areas:

• Innovative numerical methods and software design that improve the performance, portability, and scientific accuracy of models running on next-generation exascale computers
• Improve cloud computing capabilities to address computing and data challenges of the end-to-end Unified Forecast System used by NOAA, EPIC, and the research community
• Develop machine learning algorithms to increase the utilization of observations in data assimilation, improve model prediction capabilities, and enable a better understanding of diverse, dense and complex data
• Investigate new techniques to analyze, integrate, display, and interpret data to serve diverse applications and end-user requirements
• Explore advanced data assimilation methodologies and other techniques that improve the scientific accuracy and computational efficiency of assimilation models

Technologies being Explored

• Cloud computing
• Machine learning
• High-Performance Computing with CPU, GPU, and ARM processors
• Advanced modeling and data assimilation
• Data access, discovery and delivery
• Informatics and visualization
• Virtual services