The Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System (dmefs)

The past decade has witnessed the proliferation of mature modeling packages as well as rapidly evolving computer technology which is making high-resolution modeling possible. In addition, the Internet phenomenon with constantly increasing network speed has driven technology revolutions, one of which is the development of web portals with easy user interfaces that hides the complexities of the underlying software and hardware. Currently, numerical models require considerable programming and UNIX knowledge, a familiarity with different computer platforms, and experience with serial, shared memory, and distributed memory hardware. Furthermore, usually modelers must use a clunky shell script interface instead of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and currently no models can be run through a web portal.