Abstract for Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies: Building a Global Infrastructure for Climate Change Research

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 system of federated science gateways to access data, information, models, analysis tools, and computational capabilities required to evaluate peta-scale to exa-scale data sets. Its goals are to (1) make data more useful to climate researchers by developing collaborative technology that enhances data usability; (2) meet the specific needs of national and international climate projects 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, ESG-CET is working to integrate in a collaborative problem-solving environment 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.

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