Poseidon Project News

• Poseidon Data Access Portal under construction April 21, 2023
  The multi-petabyte storage cluster for the Poseidon project is being tested by the project team. The system consists of 15 storage nodes running ceph and a variety of NVMe solid state fast storage device options. Compute nodes for data analysis are also being procured. The system is powered up and undergoing testing. Several system components […]
• Daily ECCOv4r4 data is now online March 28, 2023
  The ECCO global state estimate is an important ocean reanalysis dataset. It blends a dynamical ocean circulation model with several hundred million observations from satellites and in situ instruments for the period 1992–2017. The monthly-average ECCOv4r4 data has been available for some time on SciServer. Now the daily-average dataset is online. To access the data […]
• New LLC4320 data January 21, 2023
  The LLC4320 global 2km resolution dataset has been extended. The new fields include the air/sea forcing data, sea ice, and vertical speed. Remember, the LLC4320 data currently on SciServer are just a 10-day test set. The full dataset is coming soon…
• Upgrades to OceanSpy improve performance December 15, 2022
  OceanSpy v0.3.0 has been released. This major upgrade improves performance with massive datasets, like LLC4320. Specifically, the llc_rearrange function now seamlessly manages cutout requests that cross faces in the LLC geometry. For example, one can extract large regions (see figure) or long sections. Many other minor issues are fixed. New tutorial notebooks on llc_rearrange are […]
• University of Bergen Workshop in Computational Oceanography August 20, 2022
  The Poseidon Project held a workshop in computational oceanography at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, in beautiful Bergen, Norway. The workshop involved lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on training with OceanSpy, SciServer, the Poseidon-viewer, ECCO and LLC4320 data.
• Can we analyse the largest ocean simulation ever? July 29, 2022
  Thomas Nicholas, Julius Busecke, and Ryan Abernathey presented at the SciPy Conference in July 2022 on this topic. Checkout their talk here!
• Poseidon Project Poster @ 2022 NSF CSSI PIs’ Meeting July 29, 2022
  The Poseidon Team presented a poster at the 2022 NSF CSSI PIs’ Meeting in Arlington, VA. You can see the poster here and browse other posters in the program. Also see the public discussion forum proceedings.
• Getting Started with the Poseidon Project: YouTube How-To Videos July 5, 2022
  The Poseidon Project team has launched a YouTube channel. New how-to video tutorials have been posted to help new users get started with SciServer and the Poseidon Project demonstration Jupyter notebooks. The how-to videos are: Creating a SciServer account and signing in to SciServer. Getting Started on SciServer Oceanography. How to run the LLC90 (ECCO) […]
• Visualizing Ocean Circulation Model Solutions with the Poseidon Project June 22, 2022
  Tom Haine presents the Poseidon Project strategy for visualization at the Workshop for Large-Scale Scientific Imaging kick-off event for the Scientific Software Engineering Center. See his talk here.
• Challenge Yourself with the Poseidon Turing Test March 1, 2022
  Can you distinguish between real oceanographic observations and a high-resolution realistic simulation? Take the Poseidon Project Turing Test to find out! This is a fun quiz that only takes a few minutes and there are no wrong answers. The Turing Test is an adaptation of Alan Turing’s imitation game.