Geoinformatics: Facility Support: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics

地球动力学计算基础设施（CIG）将为更大的地球动力学社区开发、支持和传播社区可访问的软件，从模型开发人员到广泛的最终用户。软件将支持各种各样的地球动力学研究，从地幔和核心动力学，到地壳和地震动力学，再到岩浆迁移和地震学。为了取得成功，研究小组将在这一研究范围内发展和保持高水平的社区参与，以确保：？可重复使用的、记录良好的地球动力学软件，可以证明与硬件的发展保持同步。最先进的建模代码可以从基本的软件构建块快速组装起来；？扩展现有软件架构，透过上层建筑层连结多个代码和数据；？与更大的计算科学和地理信息学世界的战略伙伴关系，以确保？最佳实践?固体地球科学科学计算的社区专用工具包；？为地球动力学和更大的地球科学界提供专门培训和讲习班；然后呢?硬件资源足以支持和促进软件开发和社区使用。

The Computational Infrastructure of Geodynamics (CIG) will develop, support and disseminate community-accessible software for the greater geodynamics community from model developers to the broad spectrum of end-users. Software will support a tremendous variety of geodynamic research from mantle and core dynamics, to crustal and earthquake dynamics, to magma migration and seismology. To be successful, the CIG will develop and maintain a high level of community participation across this research spectrum to ensure:? Reusable, well-documented geodynamics software that can be demonstrated to be keeping pace with developments in hardware.? Basic software building blocks from which state-of-the-art modeling codes could be quickly assembled;? Extension of existing software frameworks to interlink multiple codes and data through a superstructure layer;? Strategic partnerships with the larger world of computational science and geoinformatics to ensure ?best practices? community-specific tool kits for scientific computations in solid-Earth sciences;? Specialized training and workshops for both the geodynamics and larger Earth Science communities; and? Hardware resources sufficient to support and facilitate software development and community use.