FACE-IT. A Science Gateway for Food Security Research

Journal Article · Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Concurrency and Computation. Practice and Experience

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3540· OSTI ID:1237901

Montella, Raffaele ^[1]; Kelly, David ^[2]; Xiong, Wei ^[3]; Brizius, Alison ^[2]; Elliott, Joshua ^[2]; Madduri, Ravi ^[2]; Maheshwari, Ketan ^[4]; Porter, Cheryl ^[3]; Vilter, Peter ^[4]; Wilde, Michael ^[2]; Zhang, Meng ^[3]; Foster, Ian ^[2]

---

1. Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
3. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Progress in sustainability science is hindered by challenges in creating and managing complex data acquisition, processing, simulation, post-processing, and intercomparison pipelines. To address these challenges, we developed the Framework to Advance Climate, Economic, and Impact Investigations with Information Technology (FACE-IT) for crop and climate impact assessments. This integrated data processing and simulation framework enables data ingest from geospatial archives; data regridding, aggregation, and other processing prior to simulation; large-scale climate impact simulations with agricultural and other models, leveraging high-performance and cloud computing; and post-processing to produce aggregated yields and ensemble variables needed for statistics, for model intercomparison, and to connect biophysical models to global and regional economic models. FACE-IT leverages the capabilities of the Globus Galaxies platform to enable the capture of workflows and outputs in well-defined, reusable, and comparable forms. We describe FACE-IT and applications within the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project and the Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1237901
• Journal Information: Concurrency and Computation. Practice and Experience, Vol. 27, Issue 16; ISSN 1532-0626
• Publisher: Wiley
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING