EARTH SYSTEM MODELING

The Earth System Modeling Laboratory, home of the Paleoclimate and Climate Change research group, contains 6 Sun Ultra10 and Ultra5 workstations, 1 Sun Enterprise 4-processor server, 1 Sun Ultra 80 4-processor server, 1 Sun Raid StorEdge device, 2 SGI computers, 6 Macintosh computers, and several printers. The larger computers provide a cluster of parallel servers for intensive numerical modelling. The computing resources are used for global and regional climate modeling efforts and data analyses.This facility currently houses 6 graduate students and also hosts several national and international visitors each year.

Associated with the Earth System Modeling laboratory is the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory. The UCSC Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory (CCIL) is a computational facility sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and UCSC.

Facilities include a 32-processor SGI Origin300 supercomputer, numerous high-performance workstations, and multi-terabyte data storage and backup facilities.