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JiaweiZhuang committed Jan 26, 2018
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GEOS-Chem currently have 30 TB of GEOS-FP/MERRA2 meteorological input data.
With a bandwidth of 1 MB/s, it takes two weeks to download a 1-TB subset
and a year to download the full 30 TB. To set up a high-resolution
nested simulation, one often need to spend long time getting the
nested simulation, one often needs to spend long time getting the
corresponding meteorological fields. `GCHP <http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/GEOS-Chem_HP>`_
can ingest global high-resolution data and will further push the data size to increase.

The new paradigm to solve this big data challenge is to "move compute to data"
The new paradigm to solve this big data challenge is to "move compute to data",
i.e. perform computing directly in the cloud environment where data is already available.
(also see :ref:`earth-data-label`).
AWS has agreed to host all GEOS-Chem input data for free under the Public Data Set Program.
By having all the data already available in the cloud environment,
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