CEFA Operations and Forecast Facility Print E-mail
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DAS Tim Brown cefa.dri.edu

Lab Description

Photo courtesy Tim Brown, CEFA programThe 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 ICE 8200 (64 Quad-Core 2.93 GHz Xeon Nehalem processors), SGI Altix 3700 (48 1.3 GHz Itanium-2 processors), and SGI Altix 350 (8 1.5 GHz Itanium-2 processors) systems. Some operational products are also produced on Dell PowerEdge Server and Precision Workstations. Apple Macintosh Mac Pros, iMacs, and MacBook Pros provide desktop capabilities to CEFA personnel. COFF utilizes about fifty terabytes of disk storage. A variety of programming, visualization and statistical software packages are used in the applications development.
 

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