I.
Requirements Analysis
Completion Date:
March 2005
- Discuss project goals to users at FSL, GFDL, NCEP, other NOAA
laboratories
- Identify candidate models to be ported
- Survey users for requirements
II.
Initial Protype
Completion Date:
June 2005
- Modeling Activities
- port WRF-ARW, WRF-SI, WRF-POST to FSL's HPCS
- Design and develop portable WRF Scripts
- port GFS to Boulder's HPCS
- port WRF-SI Domain Selection Tool to FSL's HPCS
- Portal Development
- Design Graphical User Interface (GUI), show paper prototype to
NOAA, NCAR users, incorporate feedback
- Develop GUI prototype able to configure and run WRF-SI,
WRF-ARW, and WRF-POST on Boulder's HPCS
- Develop monitoring tool to display simple process monitoring
- incorporate WRF-SI Domain Selection Tool into the GUI
- Job Management
- simple task manager to run the WRF model on FSL's HPCS
III.
Release I
Completion
Date: September 2005
- Modeling Activities
- port WRF-NMM V2 to Boulder's HPCS
- port GFS to Boulder's HPCS
- develop, utilize existing run-time scripts for GFS
- Portal Development
- configure and run WRF, GFS on Boulder's HPCS
- monitoring of processes on multiple HPCS machines
- develop WRF-SI domain tool support from WRF-NMM rotated grid
domain
- Job Management
- generic task management to run WRF, GFS on FSL's HPCS
IV.
Release II
Completion
Date: April 2006
- Modeling Activities
- port WRF-NMM V2 to NCEP's HPCS
- port GFS, GSI to Boulder's and Silver Spring's HPCSs
- port WRF-SI Domain Tool to Princeton's and NCEP's HPCSs
- port MOM4 to Boulder's HPCS
- Portal Development
- configure, run WRF, GFS on Boulder's and Silver Spring's HPCSs
- configure and run MOM4 on Princeton's and Boulder's HPCSs
- more detailed monitoring information for multiple jobs running
- job submission via meta-scheduler (if available)
- support job stop, restart, reservation capabilities
- Job Management
- Task management to run WRF, GFS on Boulder's and Silver
Spring's HPCSs
V.
Release III.
Completion
Date: October 2006
- Modeling Activities
- WRF-ARW, WRF-NMM, GFS, MOM4 ported and running on Boulder's,
Princeton's,
and Silver Spring's HPCSs
- WRF-SI domain selection tool available on Boulder's,
Princeton's and Silver Spring's HPCSs
- Portal Development
- fully developed GUI to configure and run GFS, MOM4, WRF models
on Boulder's, Princeton's, and Silver Spring's HPCSs
- limited access to remote files and mass storage by the portal
for model
initialization, verification, etc.
- Job Management
- incorporation of a NOAA meta-scheduler to permit GFS, WRF and
MOM4 to be scheduled and run on Boulder's, Princeton's or Silver
Spring's HPCSs.
Prepared by Mark
Govett
Date of last update: March-2005