Hello, A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. Applicant's name: Scott Collis Applicant's institution: ANL Applicant's division: EVS Project Name: ACPC Project title: Understanding storm tracks near Houston in support of the Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate initiative Associated funding: DoE CESD: ARM CMDV. Other Systems: None Science: The Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate aims to look at the evolution of storms as the move from pristine to polluted environments. The team is proposing a field campaign in Houston, TX. This very short project will process and map 15 years of NEXRAD data from the area and perform cell tracking to derive a climatology of storm tracks. This will be used in site-ing decisions and will also form a neat publishable project in as of itself. Project description: All work will be performed using Py-ART and the new Tracky storm tracking toolkit. Data is already staged. The problem is pleasantly parallel, we have several million radar volumes and the problem can be reduced on a volume by volume basis. Recent experiments have shown that this problem is particularly amenable to the underused Haswell nodes. We have a long history of this kind of work, making good use of the Cluster for work for both DoE and DHS. We expect three project members. Py-ART is optimized thread-safe C code with a Python Glue. We use IPCluster for job management. Industry partnership: None Project URL: http://asr.science.energy.gov/meetings/stm/2017/presentations/380.pdf Requested allocation: 50000 Q1: 0 Q2: 0 Q3: 25000 Q4: 25000 Justification: Storage requirements: We have our own The requester has used undetermined amount hours of their initial startup project. In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection of approved categories, please see: https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to the Project Management page to create it: https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php Thank You, The LCRC Accounts System