The Earth System Grid: Supporting the next generation of climate modeling research

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 485-495

  Bernholdt, David ^a   Bharathi, Shishir ^b   Brown, David ^c   Chanchio, Kasidit ^a   Chen, Meili ^a   Chervenak, Ann ^b   Cinquini, Luca ^c   Drach, Bob ^d   Foster, Ian ^e   Fox, Peter ^c   Garcia, Jose ^c   Kesselman, Carl ^b   Markel, Rob ^c   Middleton, Don ^c   Nefedova, Veronika ^e   Pouchard, Line ^a   Shoshani, Arie ^f   Sim, Alex ^f   Strand, Gary ^c   Williams, Dean ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate modeling; Data management; Earth System Grid (ESG); Grid computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; MONITORING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA MANAGEMENT; EARTH SYSTEM GRID (ESG); GRID COMPUTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 18244408069     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2004.842745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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