The Cloud-Enabled Space Weather modeling and data assimilation Platform (CESWP) is a project that will enable scientists around the world to run–with as little hassle as possible–simulations of space weather.
Dr. Robert Rankin, University of Alberta, is the Principal Investigator for the CESWP Project. Dr. Rankin leads a Virtual Organization–over a dozen researchers from around the globe–to guide the development of CESWP. The project started October 1, 2009 and will be completed in 2011. As the project proceeds, researchers will have access to the platform (i.e. CESWP) as a work in progress.
CESWP is funded by CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, under it’s Network Enabled Platforms v2 Program (NEP-2). The project is managed by Cybera, a non-profit organization with a mandate to provide provincial leadership in integrating, leveraging and sustaining investments in cyberinfrastructure technologies in Alberta.
CESWP builds on the foundations of another project, CSSDP: the Canadian Space Science Data Portal. CSSDP takes space science data from several sources and provides a single integrated portal for scientists to search for and retrieve the data they need for their research. CESWP will use the results of the CSSDP project, move it to the cloud, and enhance it to allow researchers to run complex simulations of space weather.
This site supports communication between the CESWP project team members and the CESWP Virtual Organization (VO). It also allows stakeholders (e.g. scientists, CANARIE, Cybera) to see what’s happening on the project as it proceeds.
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