EarthCube Conceptual Design: A Scalable Community Driven Architecture

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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.