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Mike Dvorak <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Espresso Modeling Interface
System name: espresso
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The Espresso Scientific Modeling Interface provides an intuitive graphical 
front end to complex scientific models. Espresso makes it possible for 
scientists to perform more scientific tasks without having to deal with tedious 
and error prone script editing. Furthermore, Espresso allows scientists to 
utilize Grid resources such as data archives and remote computational resources 
using the Globus Java CoG kit http://www.globus.org/java/cog/ and the Globus 
Toolkit http://www.globus.org/. Espresso itself is written in Java and is 
configurable with XML. It currently supports NCAR/PSU MM5 (with support for 
NCAR CCSM and ANL FOAM coming soon).

The Espresso project tries to fill the gap between Grid computing and 
scientific modeling (specifically climate modeling).  By utilizing the Globus 
Toolkit, Espresso hopes to make use of replication catalogs for input data and 
Globus.org\'s GridFTP high performance data transfer functionality.  We hope 
that Espresso can be a showcase of the scientific functionality that can be 
achieved with Grid based computing.

This project has also produced a server side component (currently written in 
TCSH, BASH and Python).  Another goal of the project is to produce a framework 
to write server side components for any scientific model.

The main webpage for this project is currently 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~dvorak/climate/

JavaDoc for the text processing component of Espresso can be found at 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~/dvorak/climate/espresso/