CSF Strategic Activities

Each activity is a piece to the CSF puzzle, and each piece fits together to explore how we modernize and unify the way NSF NCAR develops and supports community models and tools, building a one‑NCAR culture of software excellence that accelerates scientific discovery.

Software Development Better Practices

This category of projects seeks to set the foundational approaches used within the CSF. These projects involve research and exploratory work that lead to adoption within CSF development workflows and as foundational software components.

GPU Acceleration

Correctness and Reproducibility

Automated Testing

Exploration of Large Language Model (LLM) Tools

Better Practices and CSF Standards

Modeling Capabilities & Infrastructure

These projects build on the tools and approaches above, advancing modeling capabilities that enable our community to study processes spanning from the ocean floor to the inner layers of the sun, at varying spatial and temporal scales.