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National Flood Interoperability Experiment
The National Flood Interoperability Experiment is a collaboration between the academic community, the National Weather Service and its government partners, and commercial partners to develop a transformational suite of software and services for national flood hydrology and emergency response. The project is led by David Maidment, hydrologist and professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Because of the volume of data needed to accurately predict flooding, Maidment and his team turned to advanced computing resources at TACC. And through XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Service (ECSS), the researchers not only received an allocation on TACC's most powerful supercomputer, Stampede, but support from a TACC HPC expert to address a computational bottleneck and implement a new data structure and workflow.
Credit: Texas Advanced Computing Center
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