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Chapter 9
Cloud-enabling Climate@Home
Jing Li, Zhenlong Li, Min Sun, Qunying
Huang, Kai Liu, and Myra Bambacus
The Climate@Home project is an initiative that is designed to build a virtual
supercomputer to support climate modeling. Cloud services are utilized to
support the management of massive model outputs and computing resources
and to facilitate efcient analysis of the outputs. This chapter introduces the
deployment of the Climate@Home system onto cloud services.
9.1 CLIMATE@HOME: BACKGROUND
AND CHALLENGES
9.1.1 Background
Climate modeling reconstructs the past and predicts future climate con-
ditions through quantifying the interaction ...