Abstract

The international climate community is expected to generate hundreds of petabytes of simulation data within the next five to seven years. This data must be accessed and analyzed by thousands of analysts worldwide in order to provide accurate and timely estimates of the likely impact of climate change on physical, biological, and human systems. Climate change is thus not only a scientific challenge of the first order but also a major technological challenge. In order to address this technological challenge, the Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) has been established within the US Department of Energy's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC)-2 program, with support from the offices of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Biological and Environmental Research. ESG-CET's mission is to provide climate researchers worldwide with access to the data …

Date

July 1, 2008

Authors

Dean N Williams, R Ananthakrishnan, DE Bernholdt, S Bharathi, D Brown, M Chen, AL Chervenak, L Cinquini, R Drach, IT Foster, P Fox, S Hankin, VE Henson, P Jones, DE Middleton, J Schwidder, R Schweitzer, R Schuler, A Shoshani, F Siebenlist, A Sim, WG Strand, N Wilhelmi, M Su

Journal

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volume

125

Issue

1

Pages

012072

Publisher

IOP Publishing