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