Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies: Building a Global Infrastructure for Climate Change Research
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Ray, CA (United States). Information Science Institute
- National Center for Atmospheric Reserch, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PMEL), Seattle, WA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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 units, high-bandwidth wide-area networks, and user desktop platforms in a collaborative problem-solving environment.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 1113896
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-CONF-450053
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at: SciDAC Conference, Chattanooga, TN, United States, Jul 12 - Jul 15, 2010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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