Project -
CDAM Science Thrust
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Energy and mass transport and scaling in space plasmas.
- Develop Quantitative Computer Models for
- Solar-Wind-Magnetospheric Coupling
- Plasma instabilities and Substorms
- Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
- Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling
- Discrete Auroral Physics
- Microphysics (electron and ion acceleration)
- Statistical Models for Forecasting (with NRCan)
- CSA Small Payloads Program
Strategic
Benefits
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Training HQP - 3 to 5 pdf's if collaborative funding is possible
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Provide a centralized supercomputing facility for space weather
modeling.
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Coordinate and participate in the exploitation of Canadian and
international space data for space weather forecasting.
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Coordinate model development with NRCan forecasting operations.
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Coordinate model development with CANOPUS 2000, SuperDARN, and NORSTAR.
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Mission support (eg data analysis aassociate with CSA POP).
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International collaboration with "CEGMENT"-the Center
for Global Modeling of the Earth and Space Environment (University of
Michigan and NCAR)
Instrumentation
- 112-node SGI Origin 2000
(access provided through MACI-$20M CFI funded Multimedia Advanced Computational Infrastructure at UofA).
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-3D Multimedia Visualization Room ("The Cave")
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16-node SGI Origin 3400 Parallel Supercomputer (growth path to 32 nodes).
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2-dual processor SGI Octane Workstations for Scientific Visualization.
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-Software for parallelization, visualization, time series analysis,
mathematical analysis.
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-High speed network, PC's, Workstations of various kinds.
Financial
Resources (in place)
Financial
Resources (additional)
Required for personnel/system maintainance/operations
- CSA - $0.2M (2001/02)
- CSA - $0.25M/yr (2002/06)
Shedule
- Infrastructure in place
- Waiting for go-ahead on operational funding
