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Grid Remote Execution (G-Rex) of Climate Models

Bretherton, D. A., Blower, J. D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2008) Grid Remote Execution (G-Rex) of Climate Models. In: The Environmental e-Science Revolution, 7th-8th April 2008, The Royal Society, London.

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Abstract/Summary

G-Rex is light-weight Java middleware that allows scientific applications deployed on remote computer systems to be launched and controlled as if they are running on the user's own computer. G-Rex is particularly suited to ocean and climate modelling applications because output from the model is transferred back to the user while the run is in progress, which prevents the accumulation of large amounts of data on the remote cluster. The G-Rex server is a RESTful Web application that runs inside a servlet container on the remote system, and the client component is a Java command line program that can easily be incorporated into existing scientific work-flow scripts. The NEMO and POLCOMS ocean models have been deployed as G-Rex services in the NERC Cluster Grid, and G-Rex is the core grid middleware in the GCEP and GCOMS e-science projects.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Refereed:No
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Environmental Systems Science Centre
ID Code:1281

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