Sponsor
The Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) is part of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program sponsored by the US Department of Energy Office of Science. It primary goal of ESG is to support the infrastructural needs of the national and international climate community by providing crucial technology to securely access, monitor, catalog, transport, and distribute data. ESG-CET is a collaboration of seven U.S. research laboratories (Argonne, LANL, LBNL, LLNL, NCAR, NOAA/PMEL, and ORNL) and one university (USC/ISI).
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ESG-CET is sponsored by:
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- Office of Science (SC)
Programmatically, it is part of:
- Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC, pronounced SIGH-dack) program announcements LAB 06-04 and DE-FG02-06ER06-04
- Centers for Enabling Technology (CETs)
- Computer Science CETs, Susan Turnbull (ASCR) and Anjuli Bamzai (BER), program managers
Funding for the project was announced in September 2006 and is planned to run for five years.

