NASA Commits Funds to a Cloud Interface for Climate Change Modeling
climate change, earth observation, geovisualization February 3rd, 2010NASA has made a $600,000 commitment to build a grid-based approach for the modeling of climate change. The move toward a software-as-a-service approach will free up resources and provide greater access for researchers to explore global temperature rises and the impacts of increasing carbon emissions.
Parabon Technologies won the award to build out the new system, using their Frontier Grid software that pulls together unused computing capacity of NASA’s estimated 80,000 desktops to create a large computational grid. This approach will take advantage of NASA’s own computing capacity, but doesn’t overrule tapping private grid computing capacity of public providers in the future.
Read more about this project in this story in ComputerWorld.
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