LEAD Day at the 2006 Unidata Users Workshop

Kelvin DrogemeierTom BaltzerRich Clark

Anne Wilson

July 13, 2006

Goals of LEAD Day

• Introduce LEAD concepts and software to you

• Get feedback from you

LEAD Goal: Democratization

• Making it EASY for users to:– experiment using meteorological tools– create meteorological forecasts– perform mesoscale modeling and forecasting– access data (source and product)– make use of large scale cyberinfrastructure

(teragrid)

This means: Freedom from Technological Issues*

• Hassle free access to supercomputing resources– TeraGrid, mass storage devices

• Hassle free execution of forecast models and related tools– WRF– ADAS, WRFSI, …

• Data format independence

* If you’d lived through what we’ve gone through you’d really appreciate what this means!!

Two LEAD Orchestration Systems

• LEAD Portal– Web based portal/portlets– Web Service based orchestration– Thin client (browser)– ADAS for initial and boundary conditions

• Siege Ensemble Broker– Desktop client based– Web Service based orchestration– Thick client (Siege and IDV)– WRFSI for initial and boundary conditions

Logistics

• AM: Two groups (blue, green)– 1st hour: Explore each system, launch a run,

evaluate• 1) LEAD Portal• 2) Siege

– 2nd hour: Rich: LEAD in Education

• PM: one large group– View results, compare with radar data,

discussion, final evaluation

Caveat

• This is the bleeding edge!!!

• “Winging it”: “This expression comes from the theater, where it alludes to an actor studying his part in the wings (the areas to either side of the stage) because he has been suddenly called on to replace another.”

Acknowledgements

• The entire LEAD team but in particular:– Jay Alameda, John Caron, Marcus Christie,

Rich Clark, Ethan Davis, Dennis Gannon, Shawn Hampton, Charles Hart, Yuan Ho, Scott Jenson, Rob Kambic, Brian Kelly, Ning Liu, Suresh Marru, Jeff McWhirter, Don Murray, Beth Plale, Mohan Ramamurthy, Al Rossi, Yogesh Simmhan, Kevin Thomas, Nithya Vijayakumar, Yunheng Wang, and Dan Weber