Research Environment and Information Service of the Space Weather Cloud

For researches and information services of space weather, it is important to establish a comprehensive system which enables us to analyze observation and simulation data in an integrated manner. For this, we constructed recently a new computing environment called the “Space Weather Cloud Computing System” of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Now, the Space Weather Cloud contains a high performance computer, a distributed mass storage system using the Grid Data Farm (Gfarm) technology, servers for analysis and visualization of data, a job service based on the RCM (R&D Chain Management) System, servers for the Solar-Terrestrial data Analysis and Reference System (STARS).