Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies: Building a Global Infrastructure for Climate Change Research
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Established within DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC-) 2 program, with support from ASCR and BER, the Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) is a consortium of seven laboratories (Argonne National Laboratory [ANL], Los Alamos National Laboratory [LANL], Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [LBNL], Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [LLNL], National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR], Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL], and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory [PMEL]), and two institutes (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [RPI] and the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute [USC/ISI]). The consortium’s mission is to provide climate researchers worldwide with a science gateway to access data, information, models, analysis tools, and computational capabilities required to evaluate extreme-scale data sets. Its stated goals are to (1) make data more useful to climate researchers by developing collaborative technology that enhances data usability; (2) meet the specific needs that national and international climate projects have for distributed databases, data access, and data movement; (3) provide a universal and secure web-based data access portal for broad-based multi-model data collections; and (4) provide a wide range of climate data-analysis tools and diagnostic methods to international climate centers and U.S. government agencies. To this end, the ESG-CET is working to integrate all highly publicized climate data sets—from climate simulations to observations—using distributed storage management, remote high-performance units, high-bandwidth wide-area networks, and user desktop platforms in a collaborative problem-solving environment.
Authors: Williams, D. N., Ahrens, J., Ananthakrishnan, R., Bell, G., Bharathi, S., Brown, D., Chen, M., Chervenak, A. L., Cinquini, L., Drach, R., Foster, I. T., Fox, P., Hankin, S., Harper, D., Hook, N., Jones, P., Middleton, D. E., Miller, R., Nienhouse, E., Schweitzer, R., Schuler, R., Shipman, G., Shoshani, A., Siebenlist, F., Sim, A., Strand, W. G., Wang, F., Wilcox, H., Wilhelmi, N.
Institutions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Southern California, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2300229545