Automating climate science: large ensemble simulations on the TeraGrid with the GriPhyN virtual data system.

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2006.261116· OSTI ID:971131

Nefedova, V; Jacob, R; Foster, I; Liu, Z; Liu, Y; Deelman, E; Mehta, G; Su, M -H; Vahi, K

Ensemble simulations are a promising technique for identifying the signal of atmospheric response to extra-tropical sea surface temperature variability with high statistical significance. The basic idea is to perform multiple simulations from slightly different initial conditions and then to study the average signal of the ensemble. A significant obstacle to performing such ensemble simulations is the bookkeeping required to prepare, execute, and track the progress of hundreds of different computations. We describe an ensemble simulation experiment in which the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model was run on the U.S. TeraGrid. In this experiment, we used the GriPhyN Virtual Data System to manage our ensemble simulations and their execution on distributed resources, achieving dramatic (order-of-magnitude) reductions in turnaround time relative to previous manual experiments.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• OSTI ID: 971131
• Report Number(s): ANL/MCS/CP-119404; TRN: US201003%%583
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing; Dec. 4, 2006 - Dec. 6, 2006; Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

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