Lab Description

The CEFA Operations and Forecast Facility (COFF) is a modern computing laboratory for data analysis and scientific visualization supporting the applications products that are routinely produced for wildland fire management agencies by CEFA. Primary computing is done on SGI Altix 350 Itanium-2 8-processor and Altix 3000 Itanium-2 32-processor systems. Some operational products are also produced on a SGI Origin 200 server with dual Risc 10000 processors and Sun Fire V480 with a dual UltraSPARC III processor. Apple Macintosh Power Mac, iMac, and PowerBook G4's and G5's provide desktop capabilities to CEFA personnel. COFF utilizes nearly seven terabytes of disk storage. A variety of programming, visualization and statistical software packages are used in the applications development.