SIParCS technical projects 2024

Students in CISL's SIParCS internship program will make their oral presentations on Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31 in the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, Colorado.

All are invited to attend in-person or via live webcast - including staff, students' family, friends, and others. Attendees will be able to submit questions via Slido. The presentations will be recorded and published for those who cannot attend.

Tuesday, July 30 (MDT)

8:30 a.m. - Introduction: Virginia Do, CISL

8:40 a.m. - "Improving Data Center Visibility with Machine Learning" Analiese Gonzalez, Cypress College

9:00 a.m. - "Exploring NCAR's Campaign Store with Elasticsearch" Phuong Anh Nguyen, Mount Holyoke College

9:20 a.m. - "Analysis of the Slingshot High-Speed Network" Thomas Sorkin, University of San Francisco

9:40 a.m. - 10 min break

9:50 a.m. - "Refactoring the Photolysis Rates Calculator in C++: Performance Evaluation Using Standard Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies" Aditya Dendukuri, University of California Santa Barbara

10:10 a.m. - "A first prototype for in-memory data transfer between Earth System models and data assimilation" Suman Shekhar, Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey)

Immediately following - "DART-X: Software Infrastructure for Prototyping in-memory Data Transfer between Ensemble Data Assimilation and Coupled Earth Systems Models" Anh Pham, Mount Holyoke College

10:50 a.m. - 10 min break

11:00 a.m. - "Developing and Evaluating Methods for Distributing Observations in DART using MPI" Kamil Yousuf, Rhodes College

11:20 a.m. - "Autoscaling for HPC Runners" Tri Nguyen, Indiana University Bloomington

Wednesday, July 31 (MDT)

8:30 a.m. - Introduction: Virginia Do, CISL

8:40 a.m. - "User Experience (UX) of Advanced 3D Data Visualization Software" Mara Ulloa, Northwestern University

9:00 a.m. - "Graph Machine Learning for Global Weather Prediction: Graph Residual Transformer + Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)" Arnold Kazadi, Rice University

9:20 a.m. - "Evidential Deep Learning for Enhanced Winter Precipitation Prediction and Decision-Making" Sophia Reiner, University of Wisconsin Madison

9:40 a.m. - 10 min break

9:50 a.m. - "Environmental Data Sensing and Monitoring System Using Community-based Private LoRa Network" Abrar Hossain, The University of Toledo

10:10 a.m. - "Distributed Holographic Image Processing with Neural Networks" Jefferson Boothe, University of Pittsburgh

10:30 a.m. - "Expanding GeoCAT's Climatology Resources to Support the Transition from NCL to Python" Andy McKeen, Vermont State University Lyndon

10:50 a.m. - 10 min break

11:00 a.m. - "Scaling UXarray: Bridging the Gap for High-Performance Unstructured Grid Analysis through Dask and Documentation Enhancements" Rachel Tam, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:20 a.m. - "CISL Outreach, Diversity, and Education (CODE)" - Eva Sosoo, University of Nebraska Lincoln