-Cyberinfrastructure and Community Environmental Modeling

摘要: The development of cyber-infrastructure in the field of Environmental Fluid Dynamics has been long, and tortuous. With the proliferation of acceptable core university courses in the sciences and engineering, in the 1960s and 1970s, and the reduction of core credits needed for graduation, a knowledge gulf has been growing between computational scientists and software engineers (Wilson and Lumsdaine 2008). Yet Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) has been growing rapidly at most research universities, particularly in the 1990s and 2000s, penetrating to some extent most of science and engineering disciplines (McMail 2008). Large codes by their nature involved more than one environmental domain, for example, wind-driven currents and wave dynamics in oceanography, or channelized flow overland flow and groundwater flow in hydrology. As these codes grew in source lines, so did …