A roadmap for a dedicated Earth Science Grid platform

Roberto Cossu (1) , Monique Petitdidier (2) , Julian Linford (3) , Vincent Badoux (4) , Luigi Fusco (1) , Benoit Gotab (5) , Ladislav Hluchy (6) , Giuditta Lecca (7) , Fabrizio Murgia (7) , Camiel Plevier (8) , Philippe Renard (4) , Horst Schwichtenberg (9) , Wim Som de Cerff (10) , Viet Tran (6) , Gerald Vetois (11)

1 ESRIN - ESA Centre for Earth Observation
2 SPACE - LATMOS
3 Serco S.p.A. [Frascati]
4 UNINE - Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel
5 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
6 Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
7 CRS4 - Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
8 Dutch Space BV
9 Fraunhofer SCAI - Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
10 KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
11 CGG - Compagnie Générale de Géophysique

Due to its intensive data processing and highly distributed organization, the multidisciplinary Earth Science applications community is uniquely positioned for the uptake and exploitation of Grid technologies. Currently Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, and other large Grid infrastructures are already deployed and capable of operational services. So far however, the adoption and exploitation of Grid technology throughout the Earth Science community has been slower than expected. The Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth sciencE project, proposed by the European Commission to assist and accelerate this process in a number of different ways, had between its main goals the creation of a roadmap towards Earth Science Grid platform. This paper presents the resulting roadmap.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère

Roberto Cossu, Monique Petitdidier, Julian Linford, Vincent Badoux, Luigi Fusco, et al.. A roadmap for a dedicated Earth Science Grid platform. Earth Science Informatics, 2010, 3 (3), pp.135-148. ⟨10.1007/s12145-010-0045-4⟩. ⟨hal-00588639⟩