NCI Australia (National Computational Infrastructure)

NCI Australia (National Computational Infrastructure) hosts data collections that are co-located with high-performance supercomputer infrastructure and cloud systems that generate data, process data streams or analyze data. The vast majority of this data has been from the climate, weather, geophysics and environmental sciences. As well as available through filesystem access and vast co-located software library, NCI publicly delivers the geospatial data through interoperable protocols wherever possible, including ISO (International Organization for Standardization) geospatial standards, OGC, and OpenDAP (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol), plus global federations such as the ESGF NCI has delivered these through a mixture of servers including GeoNetwork as a data discovery service. While NCI delivers large amounts of data through services such as THREDDS, it has developed its own scalable data services, e.g., through GSKY. These services increasingly ensure that the computational processing of the data is handled on the server-side (Evans et al., 2015). Each community on the system can also augment their computational ecosystem on the common data.

Based on materials:

Huber, R. Integrating data and analysis technologies within leading environmental research infrastructures: Challenges and approaches / Robert Huber, Claudio D’Onofrio, AnusuriyaDevaraju [et all.] – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101245 // Ecological Informatics. – 2021. – Vol. 61. – URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954121000364  (дата обращения: 27.07.2021).