View source for Draft2:National Climate-Computing Research Center

{{Stub notice}}
{{Breadcrumbs|url=https://www.ncrc.gov/|wikipedia=no|openei=no|imwiki=no}}
{{#ev:youtube|CDfANp9ZE9k|400|right|OLCF Celebrates 25 Years of HPC Leadership}}

The '''National Climate-Computing Research Center''' (NCRC) was formed as collaboration between [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] (ORNL) and the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA) to explore a variety of research topics in climate sciences. It is one of three petascale computing facilities that art part of the [[Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility]] (OLCF).

This project uses a supercomputer installed to crunch numbers for the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) and its research partners has begun climate simulations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The name of the machine is Gaea, or Mother Earth, from Greek mythology,” says Jim Rogers, Director of Operations at ORNL’s National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), which houses the new Cray XT6 machine. Rogers also directs the National Climate-Computing Research Center (NCRC) project at ORNL that includes Gaea. As part of a collaborative Work for Others Agreement, the supercomputer is owned by DOE and operated by ORNL’s managing contractor, [[UT-Battelle]], on behalf of the NOAA customer.