The 8th annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG’11) will be held August 8th -12th, 2011, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the theme for CSIG’11 is “Big Data and Big Computing”, reflecting the need in the geosciences for dealing with extremely large and heterogeneous observational data from a wide range of sensors and observing platforms, as well as simulation data produced by large-scale integrative models running on large computing platforms.
CSIG’11 will include presentations from experts in the Geosciences involved in projects that are tackling challenges with big data and big computing. The geoscience themes include integrative 3D/4D geophysical modeling; processing and analysis of observational data from remote sensing platforms; and, management and processing of streaming data from terrestrial sensors. Topics in end-to-end data management, visualization and analysis, distributed computing, cloud computing, and high-performance computing will be covered in this context. CSIG’11 will also feature presentations on big data/big computing challenges from the perspective of agencies, such as NASA, and from industry. For more information, please visit