Unanticipated firestorms can take lives and destroy property, equipment, and other resources. With help from the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), researchers are working to improve wildfire forecasts and give firefighting professionals a more powerful tool.

XSEDE is a single, virtual system funded by NSF for scientists to interactively share resources, data, and expertise. People around the world use XSEDE’s resources and services—things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools—to improve our planet.

The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) was established by the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to advance scientific discovery and leading-edge engineering, and to further knowledge of computational modeling and simulation. JICS realizes its vision by taking full advantage of petascale-and-beyond computers housed at ORNL and by educating a new generation of scientists and engineers well-versed in the application of computational modeling and simulation for solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems. JICS operates the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), which had the distinction of deploying and managing the Kraken supercomputer. NICS is a leading academic supercomputing center and a major partner in XSEDE. In November 2012, JICS sited the Beacon system, which set a record for power efficiency and captured the number one position on the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient computers.

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Article link: 
Earth, Wind, & Fire: A Computer Model Combination Could Unravel the Mysteries of Sudden Firestorms
By Scott Gibson
https://www.nics.tennessee.edu/wildfire-modeling

Research journal article citation: 
"Coupled fire–atmosphere modeling of wildland fire spread using DEVS-FIRE and ARPS"
Nathan Dahl • Haidong Xue • Xiaolin Hu • Ming Xue
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-015-1640-y

Earth, Wind, & Fire: A Computer Model Combination Could Unravel the Mysteries of Sudden Firestorms

Most of the podcasts presented here convey activities of the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), a project of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS). JICS was established by the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to advance scientific discovery and leading-edge engineering, and to further knowledge of computational modeling and simulation. JICS realizes its vision by taking full advantage of petascale-and-beyond computers housed at ORNL and by educating a new generation of scientists and engineers well versed in the application of computational modeling and simulation for solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems. JICS runs NICS, which had the distinction of deploying and managing the Kraken supercomputer. NICS is a leading academic supercomputing center and a major partner in the National Science Foundation's eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). In November 2012, JICS sited the Beacon system, which set a record for power efficiency and captured the number one position on the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient computers.

Earth, Wind, & Fire: A Computer Model Combination Could Unravel the Mysteries of Sudden Firestorms

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