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 …

Date

August 16, 2010

Authors

Dean N Williams, J Ahrens, R Ananthakrishnan, G Bell, S Bharathi, D Brown, M Chen, AL Chervenak, L Cinquini, R Drach, IT Foster, P Fox, S Hankin, D Harper, N Hook, P Jones, DE Middleton, R Miller, E Nienhouse, R Schweitzer, R Schuler, G Shipman, A Shoshani, F Siebenlist, A Sim, WG Strand, F Wang, H Wilcox, N Wilhelmi

Issue

LLNL-CONF-450053

Publisher

Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)