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Title: PMEL contributions to the collaboration: SCALING THE EARTH SYSTEM GRID TO PETASCALE DATA for the DOE SciDACs Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1042608· OSTI ID:1042608

Drawing to a close after five years of funding from DOE's ASCR and BER program offices, the SciDAC-2 project called the Earth System Grid (ESG) Center for Enabling Technologies has successfully established a new capability for serving data from distributed centers. The system enables users to access, analyze, and visualize data using a globally federated collection of networks, computers and software. The ESG software now known as the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) has attracted a broad developer base and has been widely adopted so that it is now being utilized in serving the most comprehensive multi-model climate data sets in the world. The system is used to support international climate model intercomparison activities as well as high profile U.S. DOE, NOAA, NASA, and NSF projects. It currently provides more than 25,000 users access to more than half a petabyte of climate data (from models and from observations) and has enabled over a 1,000 scientific publications.

Research Organization:
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE SC Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
DOE Contract Number:
AI02-06ER25771
OSTI ID:
1042608
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER25771
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

The Earth System Grid: Enabling Access to Multimodel Climate Simulation Data journal February 2009