The Earth System Grid: Supporting the Next Generation of Climate Modeling Research

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dc.creatorBernholdt, David
dc.creatorBharathi, Shishir
dc.creatorBrown, David
dc.creatorChanchio, Kasidit
dc.creatorChen, Meili
dc.creatorChervenak, Ann
dc.creatorCinquini, Luca
dc.creatorDrach, Bob
dc.creatorFoster, Ian
dc.creatorFox, Peter
dc.creatorGarcia, Jose
dc.creatorKesselman, Carl
dc.creatorMarkel, Rob
dc.creatorMiddleton, Don
dc.creatorNefedova, Veronika
dc.creatorPouchard, Line
dc.creatorShoshani, Arie
dc.creatorSim, Alex
dc.creatorStrand, Gary
dc.creatorWilliams, Dean
dc.date2007-12-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:49:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:49:15Z
dc.descriptionUnderstanding the earth's climate system and how it might be changing is a preeminent scientific challenge. Global climate models are used to simulate past, present, and future climates, and experiments are executed continuously on an array of distributed supercomputers. The resulting data archive, spread over several sites, currently contains upwards of 100 TB of simulation data and is growing rapidly. Looking toward mid-decade and beyond, we must anticipate and prepare for distributed climate research data holdings of many petabytes. The Earth System Grid (ESG) is a collaborative interdisciplinary project aimed at addressing the challenge of enabling management, discovery, access, and analysis of these critically important datasets in a distributed and heterogeneous computational environment. The problem is fundamentally a Grid problem. Building upon the Globus toolkit and a variety of other technologies, ESG is developing an environment that addresses authentication, authorization for data access, large-scale data transport and management, services and abstractions for high-performance remote data access, mechanisms for scalable data replication, cataloging with rich semantic and syntactic information, data discovery, distributed monitoring, and Web-based portals for using the system.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2262
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2262
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144229
dc.subjectComputational Engineering, Finance, and Science
dc.subjectDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
dc.subjectNetworking and Internet Architecture
dc.titleThe Earth System Grid: Supporting the Next Generation of Climate Modeling Research
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