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Summary

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ESG-CET Purpose and Objectives

Purpose Provide climate researchers worldwide with access to data,

information, models, analysis tools, and computational resources required to make sense of enormous climate simulation datasets

Objectives Meet specific distributed database, data access, and data movement

needs of national and international climate projects Provide a universal and secure web-based data access portal for broad

multi-model data collections Provide a wide-range of Grid-enabled climate data analysis tools and

diagnostic methods to international climate centers and U.S. government agencies

Develop Grid technology that enhances data accessibility and usability Make newly developed tools and technologies available for use in other

domains

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ESG-CET Organization

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Accomplishments: World-Wide Impact on Climate Science

Three portals serving 235+ TB of data• CMIP3 (IPCC AR4),

CCSM, PCM, POP, CSIM, CLM, NARCCAP, C-LAMP

16,000 users from more than 500 locations world-wide

0.7+ PB of data delivered, avg. 500 GB/day

500+ scientific papers from CMIP3 archive data

2007 Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC AR4

Over 500 sites worldwide

Average downloads: 400 to 600 GB/day

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Scaling ESG for the Next Generation of Climate Data…

Distributed architecture consisting of gateways, data nodes

Federation of authentication, metadata with independence for individual sites

Global search & discovery capability

Server-side analysis and visualization capabilities

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…On an Aggressive Schedule

Next-generation ESG goes into production in July

International testbed for CMIP5 deployment begins in July

General deployment of data nodes to CMIP5 contributors begins in late 2009

CMIP5 simulation runs begin early 2010

Continual development and extension of ESG system capabilities

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ESG-CET Contact Information and URLs

ESG-CET scientific portals• NCAR: http://www.earthsystemgrid.org• LLNL: https://esg.llnl.gov:8443/index.jsp• ORNL: https://esg2.ornl.gov:8443/

ESG-CET project web site• http://esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov/

ESG-CET review folder• http://esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov/review-folder

ESG-CET Executive Committee e-mail• Dean N. Williams, Ian Foster, Don Middleton, David Bernholdt• esg-xc@earthsystemgrid.org