Earth System Grid
ESG provides scientists with
- Virtual proximity to the distributed data
- Resources comprising collaborative environment
ESG supports
- Rapid transport of climate data between storage centers and users upon user’s request
- Integrated middleware and network mechanisms that broker and manage high speed, secure, and reliable access to data and other resource in a wide area system
- Persistent testbed that provides virtual proximity and shows reliable high performance data transport across a heterogeneous environment
Data volume and Transmittal problems
- High speed data transfer in heterogeneous Grid environments