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Design and Implementation of Components in the Earth System Modeling Framework

Nancy Collins, Gerhard Theurich, […], Cecelia DeLuca, Max Suarez, Atanas Trayanov, V. Balaji, Peggy Li, Weiyu Yang, Chris Hill, and Arlindo da Silva+7View all authors and affiliations
Volume 19, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342005056120

Abstract

The Earth System Modeling Framework is a component-based architecture for developing and assembling climate and related models. A virtual machine underlies the component-level constructs in ESMF, providing both a foundation for performance portability and mechanisms for resource allocation and component sequencing.

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1 We took the set services terminology (along with many good design ideas) from the Common Component Architecture project.
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2 ESMF does allow exceptions to this rule; a very fine grained component may be run in its parent’s context (e.g. using the same VM). The child component in this case faces restrictions on its options for concurrency and resource use.
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3 Times shown are reduced further in the special case in which a child component shares its parent’s VM.

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