We have developed a new strategy and espouse a novel paradigm for large-scale computing and real-time interactive visualization.
This philosophy calls for intense interactive sessions for a couple of hours at a time at the expense of storing data on many
disk drives during regular or heroic runs on massively parallel systems. We have already carried out successfully real-time
volume-rendering visualization by employing hundreds of processors for a grid with over 25 million unknowns. Both Cartesian
and spherical 3D mantle convection are visualized. The volume-rendered images are viewed on a large display device, with many
panels holding around 13 million pixels. We will employ a software strategy involving an hierarchical rendering service, which
will have as software an Ajax interface for interactive visualization of large data sets on many different platforms from
desktop PC’s to hand-held devices, such as the OQO and the Nokia N-800. An option for stereo viewing is also implemented.
We have installed a user interface as web application, using Java and Ajax framework in order to achieve over the Internet
reasonable accessibility to our ongoing runs. Our goal is to expand the array of interactive devices, which will make it feasible
to carry out ubiquitous visualization and monitoring of large-scale simulations or onsite events and to allow for collaborations
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The Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change is designed to put Canada on track to meet its Paris commitments. A key pillar of the plan is the introduction of a pan-Canadian carbon price by the end of 2018. However, four Canadian provinces, nearly 85% of the Canadian economy and population, have already implemented carbon pricing systems. British Columbia (BC) has a carbon tax. Alberta is transitioning from an output-based allocation system for industrial emitters to a hybrid system combining a carbon levy and refined output-based system. Québec and Ontario have implemented cap-and-trade systems, linked to California. Recognizing these existing systems, rather than impose a single carbon pricing mechanism, the Pan-Canadian Approach to Carbon Pricing gives provinces and territories the flexibility to adopt a carbon tax, a hybrid system, or a cap-and-trade system. To address concerns relating to ‘fairness’ and equivalency of carbon price, a federal carbon pricing benchmark establishes criteria relating to minimum ‘common scope’ and ‘increases in stringency’ that provincial and territorial carbon pricing systems must meet. This article explores the design features of the existing Alberta, BC, Ontario and Québec carbon pricing systems, and considers how the benchmark affects stringency and addresses equivalency of carbon price across these different systems.
Key policy insights
Canada is taking advantage of its federal structure of government to introduce a minimum pan-Canadian carbon price of $10/tCO2e in 2018, rising by $10/year to $50/tCO2e in 2022.
Rather than imposing a uniform pricing mechanism, the Canadian federal government is recognizing existing subnational carbon pricing mechanisms with very different design features – BC’s carbon tax, Québec and Ontario’s cap-and-trade systems, and Alberta’s hybrid system – to deliver the pan-Canadian carbon price.
In order to deliver a minimum level of increasing stringency and to address issues of equivalency of carbon price across sub-national jurisdictions, the federal government is in the early stages of implementing a federal carbon-pricing benchmark.
The lessons learned from the Canadian experience will be relevant to harmonizing carbon pricing systems across both other federal jurisdictions and countries.