National Discovery Cloud for Climate

About 

The National Discovery Cloud for Climate (NDC-C) initiative of the U.S. National Science Foundation enables access to advanced computing, data, software and networking resources in support of climate research and its applications to other research fields. NDC-C furthers NSF's commitment to equity by democratizing access to these research resources and their supporting services and end-user environments.   

Through partnerships between the cyberinfrastructure and climate research communities, NDC-C is identifying and pursuing innovative opportunities for cyberinfrastructure development and operations. Examples include edge-to-high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced data discovery and data management capabilities. Innovations supported by NDC-C may in turn support other NSF initiatives, such as the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) 

NDC-C is not a standalone program with specific solicitations but rather a crosscutting initiative that supports and builds on existing NSF programs in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Geosciences and other directorates through co-funding. Specific opportunities will be announced through Dear Colleague Letters 

Beyond investing in individual projects, NDC-C seeks to foster inter-project collaborations that would not otherwise occur, encouraging funded projects to align their outputs and activities for mutual benefit. Furthermore, the initiative looks to identify programwide governance and services that will enable collective impact.  

For inquiries about NDC-C, please email ndcc-queries@nsf.gov 

Presentations by NDC-C awardees

2023


Presentation slides from Fiscal Year 2023 NDC-C awardees are available from figshare.

Presentation recording (Passcode: fEs@w2s! ) 

  • Marlon Pierce: Overview of the National Discovery Cloud for Climate Initiative. 
  • Stephen Deems: ACCESS Overview and Allocation Processes. 
  • Brian Bockelman: Pelican and the Open Science Data Federation. 
  • Michael Norman: CloudBank. 

 

Presentation recording (passcode: xB+4%P#H ) 

  • Douglas Schuster: Integrating NCARs Data Infrastructure with the OSDF.  
  • Ana Hunsinger: 21st Century Research-Cyberinfrastructure for MSIs Through the Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC). 
  • Wendy Huntoon: Tribal College and University CI Facilitation. 
  • Kate Keahey: Chameleon III: A Large-Scale, Reconfigurable Experimental Environment for Cloud Research. 
  • Robert Ricci: CloudLab III: Expanding the Frontiers of Cloud Computing Through World-Class Community Infrastructure. 
  • Sudeep Pasricha: DESC: Type I: Sustainable Serverless Computing.  

Presentation recording (passcode: &t3A8b4C ) 

  • Ilkay Altintas: National Data Platform Pilot: Services for Equitable Open Access to Data. 
  • Michael Zink: SPRITE: Sensor Processing and Realtime Intelligence at The Edge-Supporting the National Discovery Cloud for Climate with Advanced Networking, Cloud, and Edge Computing.  
  • Michela Taufer: A Comprehensive Approach for Generating, Sharing, Searching, and Using High-Resolution Terrain Parameters. 
  • Donata Giglio: Long-term Deployment Sustainability Strategy for Argovis. 
  • William Gropp: Crossing the Divide Between Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Science and Bridging the Gap Between AI/ML Computing Demands and Today's Capabilities (Delta and DeltaAI Supercomputers). 

Presentation recording (passcode: d9V$zmb0 ) 

  • Ilsa Simpson: Atmospheric Physics Needs for Community Climate Modeling.  
  • Pete Beckman: A National-Scale Testbed Supporting Artificial Intelligence Research Spanning the Computing Continuum. 
  • Tommy Minyard: Stampede3 — Modernizing and Evolving the Largest ACCESS Compute Resource. 
  • Twila Moon, Matt Jones: QGreenland-Net: Open, Connected Data Infrastructure for Greenland-focused Geoscience, and Beyond. 
  • Lakshminarayan Subramanian: Scalable Climate Modeling using Message-Passing Recurrent Neural Networks. 

Presentation recording (passcode: A!55vSps ) 

  • Andy Aschwanden: Enhancing Usability of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) to Accelerate Innovative Sea-Level Research. 
  • Joanmarie DelVecchio: A Workflow for Efficient and reproducible permafrost geomorphology analysis. 
  • Sudarsun Kannan: A Unified Monitoring Approach to Enhancing the Security and Resiliency of Hazard Workflows on Heterogeneous Infrastructures. 
  • David Hyde: Advanced Cloud-Based Data and Visualization-Integrated Simulation EnviRonment (ADVISER) to Advance Computational Glaciology. 
  • Udit Gupta: Cloud Infrastructures for Designing Sustainable Electronics. 

Presentation recording (passcode: #fSppPr7 ) 

  • Leonardo Bobadilla: EnviStor: A Repository for Supporting Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on South Florida's Built and Natural Environments. 
  • Roch Guerin: Speeding-up Large-Scale Simulations of Atmospheric Composition. 
  • Xun Jian: A Cross-Stack Approach to Reduce Memory Carbon in Cloud Data Centers. 
  • Dan Amrhein, Michael Long: A Community Platform for Accelerating Observationally-Constrained Regional Oceanographic Modeling. 
  • Carrie Bell: Development of Cyberinfrastructure to Establish a Scalable Application of Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Over a Decade of NOAA's Water Column Sonar Data. 
  • Jingjing Liang: Science-i Cyberinfrastructure for Forest Ecosystem Research. 

NDC-C supported awards and supplements

2024


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Award numberPrincipal investigatorTitle 
2336296Shantenu JhaEAGER: Federating HPC and cloud resources for sea-level rise modeling and adaptation
2346667Damien DoyleResearch Infrastructure: CC* Data Storage: Broadening UMBCs Data Storage footprint to Advance Scientific Research and Discovery
2347239Stefano CastruccioRe-Imagining Computation and Storage Resources in Climate- and Weather-dedicated Cyberinfrastructures
2402946
2402947
Zhe Jiang, Jie RenCollaborative Research: OAC Core: Learning AI Surrogate of Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Simulations for Coastal Circulation
2410799
2410800
2410801
Viswanath  Nandigam, Chelsea Scott, 
Christopher Crosby
Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: OpenTopography - An AI-ready Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Advancing Our Understanding of a Changing Earth
2410845
2410846
2410847
2410848
2410849
2410850
Mark Behn, Leif Karlstrom, Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Gregory Tucker, John NaliboffCollaborative Research: Frameworks: Coupling bulk and surface processes in simulating the solid earth with ASPECT and LandLab
2410992
2410993
Reed Maxwell, Laura CondonCollaborative Research: Frameworks: Building a national integrated watershed evaluation framework: A community platform to improve model evaluation and decision making
2411033 
2411034
2411035
2411036
Charles Nguyen, Andrew Moodie, Eric Hutton, 
Eric Barefoot
Collaborative Research: Frameworks:  Sandpiper - A community toolchain to support geomorphology from data acquisition to analysis
2411055Daniel ShaperoElements: simulating glacier terminus evolution and iceberg calving with icepack
2411114Pavlos KolliasElements: Multisensor Agile Adaptive Sampling (MAAS) of the Atmosphere
2411181
2411182
Ryan Venturelli, Joseph TulenkoCollaborative Research: Frameworks - A transparent-middle-layer computational and data management infrastructure for polar radiocarbon chronology
2411221
2411222
2411223
Claudio Silva, Jon Froehlich, Fabio MirandaCollaborative Research: Frameworks: Cyberinfrastructure to Catalyze and Sustain the Urban Computing Community
2411267
2411268
Deborah Khider, Nicholas McKayCollaborative Research: Elements: TUPS: Table Understanding for Paleoclimate Studies
2411273Daniel AliagaFrameworks: Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Tree Resilience and Environmental Equity (uTREE)
2416650Ningning KongCyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Enabling the Geospatial Turn in the Social Sciences through Cyberinfrastructure Training
2417849
2417850
Wenqian Dong, Xipeng ShenCollaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: EcoTern: Pioneering a CI Workforce for Sustainable and Transdisciplinary Environmental Science Research
2419722 Surendra BynaCollaborative Research: CICI:TCR:S2-D2: Securing Self-describing Data, Formats, and Libraries
2425306Mingfang TingCAIG: Unraveling the Extreme Near-Global Marine Heatwaves of 2023: Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand the Physics and Implications for the Future
2425667Ashesh ChattopadhyayCAIG: Stability and Physical consistency of AI-based climate emulators for estimating forced responses
2425747
2425748
Arvind Singh, Efi Foufoula-GeorgiouCollaborative Research: CAIG: Data science frontiers in advancing predictive understanding of landscapes and erosional extremes under changing climatic scenarios
2425844
2425845
Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei JiaCollaborative Research: CAIG: Toward Next-Generation Global Forest Carbon Monitoring via Integrated Sensing, Modeling and AI to Advance Carbon Cycle Science
2425885Deborah KhiderCAIG: PaleoPAL: An AI research assistant for paleoclimatology
2425898
2425899 
Dorian Abbot, Jonathan WeareCollaborative Research: CAIG: Developing AI Emulator Tools for Extreme Events with Application to Heat Waves and Cold Snaps
2425923Imme Ebert-UphoffCAIG: Toward a deeper understanding of cloud processes and future storm modes using AI
2409885
2409886
2409887
Viswanath Nandigam, Carlos Silva, 
Chelsea Scott
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: OpenForest4D - A web- based cyberinfrastructure platform for next generation 4D forest mapping and monitoring

2023


Award number Principal investigator Title 
1751075 Carlee Joe-Wong CAREER: Towards a Marketplace of Networked Services for the Next Billion Devices (Supplement) 
1755088 Everette Joseph Integrating NCAR’s data infrastructure with the OSDF (Supplement) 
1925001 Michael Norman Cloudbank supplements for NDCC (Two Supplements)  
2027170 Kate Keahey Collaborative Research: Chameleon Phase III: A Large-Scale, Reconfigurable Experimental Environment for Cloud Research (Supplement) 
2027208 Rob Ricci CloudLab Phase III: Expanding the Frontiers of Cloud Computing Through World-Class Community Infrastructure (Supplement) 
2138259 Stephen Deems (CMU) Track 1: ACCESS Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) (Supplement) 
2234326 Ana Hunsinger 21st Century Research-Cyberinfrastructure for MSIs through the Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC): A phased approach to engage the Missing Millions (Supplement) 
2311319 Joanmarie DelVecchio Elements: A workflow for efficient and reproducible permafrost geomorphology analysis 
2311376 Isla Simpson Sustainability: Atmospheric Physics Needs for Community Climate Modeling 
2311382, 2311383 Matthew Long, David Nicholson Collaborative Research: Frameworks: A community platform for accelerating observationally-constrained regional oceanographic modeling 
2311762 Jingjing Liang Elements: Science-i Cyberinfrastructure for Forest Ecosystem Research 
2311843 Carrie Bell Elements: Development of cyberinfrastructure to establish a scalable application of self-supervised machine learning for over a decade of NOAA's water column sonar data 
2311919 Donata Giglio Sustainability: Long-term Deployment Sustainability Strategy for Argovis 
2312785 Xun Jian CSR:Medium: A Cross-stack Approach to Reduce Memory Carbon in Cloud Data Centers 
2319944 Sudarsun Kannan  CICI: TCR: A Unified Monitoring Approach to Enhancing the Security and Resiliency of Hazard Workflows on Heterogeneous Infrastructures 
2320345 William Gropp Category I: Bridging the Gap Between AI/ML Computing Demands and Today's Capabilities (Supplement) 
2320757 Tommy Minyard ACSS Category-I System supplements, Stampede 3, early users (Supplement) 
2322308 Leonardo Bobadilla CC* Storage: EnviStor: A Repository for Supporting Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on South Florida's Built and Natural Environments 
2334507, 2334508 Roch Guerin, Sebastian Eastham Collaborative Research: EAGER: Speeding-up large-scale simulations of atmospheric composition 
2324514 Sudeep Pasricha DESC: Type I: Sustainable Serverless Computing 
2324718 Andy Aschwanden RISE OSE GEO OSE Track 2: Enhancing usability of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) to accelerate innovative sea-level research 
2324735, 2324736, 2324737 David Hyde, Daniel Shapero, and Catherine Walker Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 1: Advanced cloud-based Data and Visualization-Integrated Simulation EnviRonment (ADVISER) to Advance Computational Glaciology  
2324765 Twila Moon, Matthew Jones RISE OSE Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: QGreenland-Net: Open, connected data infrastructure for Greenland-focused geoscience, and beyond  
2331263 Pete Beckman (NU) A National-Scale Testbed Supporting Artificial Intelligence Research Spanning the Computing Continuum 
2331480 Brian Bockelman (UW) Pelican: Advancing the Open Science Data Federation Platform  
2333609 Ilkay Altintas (UCSD) National Data Platform Pilot: Services for Equitable Open Access to Data 
2334701 Gwendolyn Huntoon Tribal College and University CI Facilitation 
2334945 Michela Taufer EAGER: A Comprehensive Approach for Generating, Sharing, Searching, and Using High-Resolution Terrain Parameters 
2335335 Michael Zink EAGER: SPRITE: Sensor Processing and Realtime Intelligence at The Edge - Supporting the National Discovery Cloud for Climate with Advanced Networking, Cloud, and Edge Computing 
2335773 Lakshminarayan Subramanian EAGER: Scalable Climate Modeling using Message-Passing Recurrent Neural Networks 
2335795 Udit Gupta EAGER: Cloud Infrastructures for Designing Sustainable Electronics