PRISM Areas of Expertise

 

The PRISM activities are organised around areas of expertise (PAE) having the following remits:

  • promotion and, if needed, development of software tools for Earth System Modelling;
  • encouragement and organisation of related network of experts, including technology watch;
  • promotion and participation in the definition of community standards where needed;
  • coordination with 1) other PRISM areas of expertise 2) related international activities.

 

The five PRISM areas of expertise (PAEs) and their scope are:

  • Code coupling and I/O

    • The scope of the PAE "Code coupling and I/O" is to:

    1. develop, maintain and support tools for coupling climate modelling component codes,
    2. ensure a constant technology watch on coupling tools developed outside PRISM, and
    3. keep strong relations with the different projects involving code coupling in climate modelling internationally (e.g. GENIE, FLUME, ESMF, etc.).

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  • Integration and modelling environments

    • The PAE "Integration and modelling environments" covers:

    1. version control,
    2. code extraction and compilation,
    3. job configuration,
    4. job running, and
    5. integration with archive systems.

This PAE coordinates technology reviews providing direction for further development for related tools, particularly noting developments in other PAEs and in related projects such as ESMF, FLUME and GENIE.
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  • Data processing, visualisation and management

    • This PAE addresses different aspects of data management, including data processing, visualisation, data networking and federated archive architecture. This PAE interacts strongly with the PAE "Integration and modelling environments" to incorporate data management in the compiling and running environments, and also with the PAE "Metadata" for the automatic description of experiments, models, and numerical grids.
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  • Metadata (cross cutting PAE)

    • The remits of the PAE "Metadata" are to:

    1. identify metadata requirements for PRISM,
    2. work towards the formulation of metadata standards, in collaboration with other Earth System Modelling (ESM) projects (for example ESMF, FLUME, Geniefy), and
    3. stimulate discussion and interaction with the PRISM and broader ESM community to ensure that metadata provision meets the current and future needs of the community.

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  • Computing issues (cross cutting PAE) - (under consideration)

    • The PAE "Computing" aims at

    1. identifying open questions on computing related to earth system modelling,
    2. stimulating discussion between users and vendors,
    3. reflecting on a way towards Petacomputing in Earth System modelling, which may include topics such as file IO and data storage, algorithmic development and performance, portable and flexible programming, parallel programming models, and
    4. reflecting on the lessons we can learn from using the Earth Simulator and similar large systems

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