Earth System Grid II

A SciDAC Program Project

The magnitude and complexity of climate model datasets has the potential to stand as a formidable barrier to research progress. To surmount these barriers, fundamentally new methodologies for managing, accessing, recombining, analyzing and intercomparing distributed data are required. Earth System Grid II provides a next-generation environment that harnesses the combined potential of massive distributed data resources, remote computation, and high-bandwidth wide-area networks as an integrated resource for the research scientist.

The goal of ESG-II is to provide a foundation for next-generation analysis applications, web-based data portals, and collaborative problem-solving environments and thus act as vital enabling infrastructure for sustaining and advancing climate research.

The objectives of this project are

• Deploy an operational Earth System Grid fabric
• Develop new data grid technology to meet the needs of this large user community
• Demonstrate next-generation tools, building upon work at PCMDI and NCAR
• Outreach, technololgy transfer and service to the climate research community.

For more info, see:

• Project website: The Earth System Grid
• 2-Page Summary, March 2004 (PDF)
• 2-Page Summary, March 2003 (PDF)
• 4-Slide Presentation, March 2003 (PowerPoint Presentation)