EarthCube Conceptual Design: A Scalable Community Driven Architecture

PI为EarthCube计划开发了一个概念架构。概念架构将作为现有和新组件的定义、构建和部署的蓝图，以确保它们能够统一并集成到EarthCube的渐进式国家基础设施中。他们打算创建一个概念，将正在进行的EarthCube活动以及其他跨机构地球科学信息学工作的发现和要求结合起来。该体系结构模型将成为建立可扩展和可持续的EarthCube系统的路线图，该系统将促进新科学的发展，并激发广泛的地球科学家的实质性参与。该项目团队由来自美国国家航空航天局（NASA）和私营企业的一组计算机科学家领导，他们在领导复杂和数据密集型科学数据系统的架构，设计和开发方面拥有丰富的经验和良好的记录。他们将特别关注指导架构报告和规范的开发。EarthCube架构研究的结果可以为其他科学和机构的努力做出智力贡献，因为他们正在研究新的架构模型，以解决大数据时代的科学数据管理和发现问题。

The PIs develop a conceptual architecture for the EarthCube program. The conceptual architecturewill serve as the blueprint for the definition, construction, and deployment of both existingand new components to ensure that they can be unified and integrated into a evolutionary nationalinfrastructure for EarthCube. They intend to create a concept that incorporates findings andrequirements from ongoing EarthCube activities as well as other cross-agency Earth Scienceinformatics efforts. The architecture models will be a roadmap for building an extensibleand sustainable EarthCube system that facilitates new science and inspires substantive participationof a broad spectrum of geoscientists. The project team is led by a group of computer scientistsfrom National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and private industry that has extensiveexperience and a proven track record leading the architecture, design and development of complexand data intensive science data systems. They will specifically focus on the development ofa guiding architecture report and specification. The results of this EarthCube architecture study can intellectuallycontribute to other scientific and agency efforts as they are studying new architectural modelsto address scientific data management and discovery in the big data era.