AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEQUOIA 2000 PROJECT

  • Authors:
  • Michael Stonebraker

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEQUOIA 2000 PROJECT
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Achieving the goals of the U.S. Global Change Research Program will depend not only on improved measurement systems, but also on improved data systems that will allow scientists to manipulate the resulting large-scale data sets and climate system models, as well as compare model results with observations. New modes of research, especially the synergistic interactions between observations and model-based simulations, will require massive amounts of diverse data to be stored, organized, accessed, distributed, visualized, and analyzed. Computer scientists and environmental researchers at several UC campuses are collaborating to address these challenges. Refinements in computing--specifically involving storage, networking, file systems, extensible data base management, and visualization--will be applied to specific Global Change applications. We have named this project Sequoia 2000, after the giant trees of the Sierra Nevada, the largest organisms on the Earth''s land surface.