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CSDMS to use OpenMI to build a surface dynamics community

The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) is a US initiative to enhance the international cooperation among earth surface scientists, to stimulate the development of interoperable simulation components, to increase the use of high-performance computing in surface dynamics modeling, and to provide a framework enabling integrated model coupling. It is funded by National Science Foundation and co-sponsored by various parties including the Office of Naval Research and NASA. The CSDMS community develops, supports, and disseminates integrated software modules that predict the movement of fluids, and the flux (production, erosion, transport, and deposition) of sediment and solutes in landscapes and their sedimentary basins. CSDMS involves the Earth surface - the dynamic interface between lithosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere.

CSDMS has chosen the OpenMI interface as a central element in the framework being built. The OpenMI standard will be combined with the Common Component Architecture (CCA) to provide a platform that runs on a single PC as well as on supercomputer infrastructure. It is an exciting new step in the development of the OpenMI standard to investigate together how well its concepts can be used to harness the computational power of the largest computers around. While raising very interesting technical issues, this choice for OpenMI underpins once more the international recognition for the standard and significantly broadens the range of models that can be coupled using the OpenMI interface.

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