TITLE:

THE GENERAL CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL

DATE:

Friday, March 4th, 2011

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center at SDSU

ABSTRACT:

The General Curvilinear Environmental Model is a high-resolution system composed of the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) and the General Curvilinear Atmospheric Model (GCAM). Both modules are capable of reading a general curvilinear grid, orthogonal as well as non-orthogonal in all three directions. These two modules are weakly coupled using the distributed coupling toolkit (DCT). The model can also be nested within larger models and users are able to interact with the model and run it using a web based computational environment. The GCEM Computational Environment (GCEM-CE) allows the model to be hosted as a Web service for a variety of clients (human or application) to run simulations across the heterogeneous computing environments provided by a cyber infrastructure (such as those on the NSF TeraGrid). The GCEM-CE uses the SDSU Cyber infrastructure Web Application Framework (Cyber Web) to provide middleware and back-end services. Cyber Web improves on standard grid-enabled toolkits and functions (e.g. job execution, account management, task history, GSI authentication, etc) by hosting its applications as a collection of Web services, portal Web pages, or even Web 2.0 Social networking gadgets.

We will present an overview of the GCEM and will highlight differences with currently similar projects.

HOST:

Antonio Palacios

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