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ESGF Working Groups

Gavin M. Bell edited this page Dec 13, 2013 · 22 revisions

The following working groups were identified during the ESGF 2013 Workshop held at LLNL.

If you are interested in participating to a working group, please subscribe to the corresponding mailing list by sending an email from your account to [email protected], including the following line in the email body:

subscribe "insert here the mailing list title"


Installation Working Group

Goal: to constructively improve the process of installing and configuring an ESGF Node, in all possible flavor combinations.

Current Subscribers:

  • Gavin M. Bell
  • Prashanth Dwarakanath
  • Alan Iwi
  • Eric Blau
  • John Bongiovanni/Chris Allen
  • Nicolas Carenton
  • Zed Pobre
  • Katharina Berger
  • Qizhong Wu

Mailing List: [email protected]


Server Side Computation Working Group

Goal: to design and implement a scalable architecture for executing server side computation on data available through the ESGF system

Current Subscribers:

  • Gavin M. Bell
  • Luca Cinquini
  • Sébastien Denvil
  • Charles Doutriaux
  • Stephan Kindermann

Mailing List: [email protected]


Cloud Working Group

Goal: to enable installation and operation of the ESGF infrastructure on the cloud

Current Subscribers:

  • Gavin M. Bell
  • Ben Evans/Chris Allen
  • Luca Cinquini
  • Sébastien Denvil
  • Charles Doutriaux
  • Dan Duffy
  • Philip Kershaw
  • Stephan Kindermann

Mailing List: [email protected]


Networking Working Group

Goal: to benchmark and improve the performance of data transfer across the ESGF system

Current Subscribers:

  • Eli Dart
  • Gavin M. Bell
  • Matt Prichard
  • Ben Evans
  • Sébastien Denvil
  • Mary Hester
  • Gerald Vogt
  • Frank Touissaint

Mailing List: [email protected]


Security Working Group

Goal: to design and implement the next generation security framework for ESGF (spanning Identity Management, Authentication and Authorization)

Current Subscribers:

  • Philip Kershaw
  • Rachana Anathakrishnan
  • Luca Cinquini
  • Gavin Bell

Mailing List: [email protected]


Data Publishing Working Group

Goal: to investigate and implement new tools and services for publishing heterogenous resources to the ESGF system

Current Subscribers:

  • Luca Cinquini
  • Stephen Pascoe
  • Sébastien Denvil
  • John Bongiovanni
  • Katharina Berger

Mailing List: [email protected]


Controlled Vocabularies Working Group

Goal: to formalize the vocabularies used by ESGF to publish, search and describe resources of any kind: data, models, instruments etc.

Current Subscribers:

  • Luca Cinquini
  • Mark Morgan
  • Martin Jukes
  • Karl Taylor
  • Frank Touissant

Mailing List: [email protected]


Documentation and Support Working Group

Goal: to promote the development of outstanding documentation for the ESGF system for a variety of audiences: users, developers, managers; and to investigate and deploy all possible venues for supporting the ESGF user community.

Current Subscribers:

  • Luca Cinquini
  • Stephen Pascoe
  • Prashanth Dwarakanath
  • Torsten Rathmann

Mailing List: [email protected]

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