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Support distributed collaborators sharing programs, experimental, observational and program-generated data
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data includes sensors, field observation and commercial GIS
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Support execution of programs on sequential and parallel machines -- latter include shared memory systems and clusters of PC's
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Support (database and ASCII file based) storage and access to data with necessary metadata and organizational principles
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Develop web-based interfaces to simulations and data for both GEM community and outside users
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Allow International (ACES) collaboration
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Support a range of models and model components in a "plug and play" fashion
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Support interactive analysis and visualization
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Provide online help and training
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