Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)
Founded 2005 (2005)
Focus Earth Science, Geodynamics, Geophysics, Open Source Software
Location
Mission "The Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a community-driven organization that advances Earth science by developing and disseminating software for geophysics and related fields."
Website Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics

The Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a community-driven organization that advances Earth science by developing and disseminating software for geophysics and related fields. It is a National Science Foundation-sponsored collaborative effort to improve geodynamic modelling and develop, support, and disseminate open-source software for the geodynamics research and higher education communities.

CIG is located at the University of California, Davis, and is a member-governed consortium with 59 institutional members and 15 international affiliates.

History

CIG was established in 2005 in response to the need for coordinated development and dissemination of software for geodynamics applications. Founded with an NSF cooperative agreement to Caltech, in 2010, CIG moved to UC Davis under a new cooperative agreement from NSF.


Software

CIG hosts codes in a wide range of disciplines in geodynamics and computational science. The following is a list of software packages that are developed by CIG, developed by community contributors, supported by CIG, or supported by community contributors:

Computational science

Geodynamo

Seismology

Mantle convection

Short-term crustal dynamics

Archived software

The following are software packages that are archived with no development activity:

Software Attribution for Geoscience Applications (SAGA)

CIG started the SAGA project with an NSF EAGER award from the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities for “Development of Software Citation Methodology for Open Source Computational Science”.

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