The primary purpose of the NCAR Computing Facility is to provide computing to all phases of meteorological research and is available to the scientific community at large. This report deals primarily with the technical problems of operating a computing facility and serves as a history of its growt... Show moreThe primary purpose of the NCAR Computing Facility is to provide computing to all phases of meteorological research and is available to the scientific community at large. This report deals primarily with the technical problems of operating a computing facility and serves as a history of its growth. Sections include: use of CDC 6600; non-NCAR users; panel; hardware; software including the operating system, the compiler, and systems library routines; projects and papers including summer program, new data, data handling software, other data projects, NCAR manual, and papers; organization chart; and the future. Show less
