TY  - JOUR
A1  - Berg-Mohnicke, Michael
A1  - Nendel, Claas
T1  - A case for object capabilities as the foundation of a distributed environmental model and simulation infrastructure
JF  - Environmental modelling & software with environment data news
N2  - With the advent of increasingly powerful computational architectures, scientists use these possibilities to create simulations of ever-increasing size and complexity. Large-scale simulations of environmental systems require huge amounts of resources. Managing these in an operational way becomes increasingly complex and difficult to handle for individual scientists. State-of-the-art simulation infrastructures usually provide the necessary re-sources in a centralised setup, which often results in an all-or-nothing choice for the user. Here, we outline an alternative approach to handling this complexity, while rendering the use of high-performance hardware and large datasets still possible. It retains a number of desirable properties: (i) a decentralised structure, (ii) easy sharing of resources to promote collaboration and (iii) secure access to everything, including natural delegation of authority across levels and system boundaries. We show that the object capability paradigm will cover these issues, and present the first steps towards developing a simulation infrastructure based on these principles.
KW  - Cap'n proto
KW  - Scientific collaboration
KW  - Co -development
KW  - Communication
KW  - protocol
KW  - Object capability
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105471
SN  - 1364-8152
SN  - 1873-6726
VL  - 156
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -