Computing @ home

CMI researchers are active users of large scale parallel computing. Locally we operate a cluster facility with a Myrinet interconnect. This system currently contains thirty-two Pentium 4 nodes and twenty-four Pentium III nodes. The facility supports a wide range of research calculations. 

In an alliance with other engineering and computational science groups at MIT we are planning to grow the facility as part of the ACES project.

Software tools

We conduct research into and have developed significant bodies of software that provide modeling infrastructure. Together with a number of partners in the US we are currently help to define and build the Earth System Modeling Framework a standards based open-source software infrastructure for supporting high-performance, multi-component Earth science applications.

We work with researchers at MIT and elsewhere developing advanced, specialized software to support our climate modeling. These projects include:

(i) parallel Matlab efforts at MIT and at MIT Lincoln Labs and

(ii) automatic differentiation: efforts to develop an open standard based toolkit for extensible automatic differentiation.