The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART): Building Community, Software, and Science for Ensemble Data Assimilation
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 3:00 PM to Thursday, June 12, 2025 4:00 PM · 2 days 1 hr. (Europe/Berlin)
Foyer D-G - 2nd floor
Women in HPC Poster
Community EngagementDevelopment of HPC SkillsEarth, Climate and Weather ModelingEducation and TrainingNovel Algorithms
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Poster is on display and will be presented at the poster pitch session.
The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is an open-source, freely available software facility designed to support ensemble data assimilation for Earth system research. Data assimilation is the process of combining model forecasts with observations to enhance the value of both. For over 20 years, DART has been at the cutting edge, fostering a diverse community of users and contributors. The development of DART is community-driven, promoting a cycle of continuous improvement and scientific progress.
DART is designed to be accessible to users and developers of all skill levels, offering early-career opportunities to gain experience in research software engineering and parallel computing. It also serves as an educational resource, with tutorials and documentation that have been implemented in university courses.
This poster emphasizes the importance of mentorship and providing support to early-career professionals and students in these fields, as it helps to smooth the learning curve in HPC and research software engineering. Our team strives to play a positive role by working with our open-source contributors and formal mentorship programs, such as the Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS). The benefits of this mentorship fosters the next generation of contributors, and ultimately mentors, as it has done for me in the first few years of my own career.
This poster also details the technical aspects of DART, such as its ability to handle high-resolution models and large ensemble sizes through parallelization and distributed memory. The software is highly flexible and malleable to support a wide variety of models and observations, providing customizable applications and making it a valuable tool in all Earth system domains.
The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is an open-source, freely available software facility designed to support ensemble data assimilation for Earth system research. Data assimilation is the process of combining model forecasts with observations to enhance the value of both. For over 20 years, DART has been at the cutting edge, fostering a diverse community of users and contributors. The development of DART is community-driven, promoting a cycle of continuous improvement and scientific progress.
DART is designed to be accessible to users and developers of all skill levels, offering early-career opportunities to gain experience in research software engineering and parallel computing. It also serves as an educational resource, with tutorials and documentation that have been implemented in university courses.
This poster emphasizes the importance of mentorship and providing support to early-career professionals and students in these fields, as it helps to smooth the learning curve in HPC and research software engineering. Our team strives to play a positive role by working with our open-source contributors and formal mentorship programs, such as the Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS). The benefits of this mentorship fosters the next generation of contributors, and ultimately mentors, as it has done for me in the first few years of my own career.
This poster also details the technical aspects of DART, such as its ability to handle high-resolution models and large ensemble sizes through parallelization and distributed memory. The software is highly flexible and malleable to support a wide variety of models and observations, providing customizable applications and making it a valuable tool in all Earth system domains.
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