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Matthew Harris edited this page Oct 9, 2013 · 4 revisions

ESGF Functionality

The following functionality is currently supported by the ESGF Peer To Peer software stack:

  • Metadata Searching
* Free text and faceted searching 
* Geospatial and temporal querying 
* Consistent search across all P2P Nodes in the federation 
* Web user interface for browser-based searches 
* REST API for interacting directly with the search service, across all Nodes, datasets and files 
  • Data Download
* Download of single files from web browser 
* Generation of PKI based wget script for multiple files download 
  • Notification
* RSS feeds notifying users of any data publication event 
  • Analysis and Visualization
* Integration with Live Access Server 
  • User Management
* User registration 
* Administrator interface for managing users in groups 
  • Security
* Identity Provider 
* Single-Sign-On for browser based access based on OpenID 
* PKI authentication for desktop client based access 
* SAML Attribute Service 
* SAML Authorization Service 
* Policy service 
* Registry service 
* Remote group registration service 
  • Registry
* Dynamic advertisement and detection of services available at each P2P Node 
  • Installation
* Scripted installation of full software stack, configurable as four different flavors: _ data _ , _ index _ , _ compute _ and _ idp _
  • Clients support
* Reusable wget scripts 
* Data Mover Light 
* UV-CDAT 
  • CLI
* ESGF REPL - take advantage of a shell interface and ability to load a growing library of available, community contributed commands; written in any of 5 languages! 

The following functionality is currently in prototype stage:

  • Administrator Dashboard
  • Access via CDX python API (Climate Data Exchange)

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