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| Ada | Sandy Bridge IBM supercomputer of IDRIS (FR), 233 TFLOPS peak | http://www.idris.fr/eng/ada/hw-ada-eng.html
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| ADS | Astrophysics Data System, digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics | http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu
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| AGRIF | Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran, package for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) features within a multidimensional finite difference model | http://agrif.imag.fr
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| API | Application Programming Interface, defined methods of communication between various software components |
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| BFM | Biogeochemical Flux Model, for the simulation of the dynamics of major biogeochemical properties in marine ecosystems | http://bfm-community.eu
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| CDO | Climate Data Operators, collection of command line operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data | http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/software/cdo
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| CEA | "Commissariat à l'Énergie Nucléaire et aux Énergies Alternatives" or French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (FR), public government-funded research organisation | http://www.cea.fr
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| CeCILL | "CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre", free software license compatible with GNU GPL and compliant with French law | http://www.cecill.info
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| CICE | Los Alamos sea ice model, component for use in fully coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-land global circulation models | http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CICE
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| CMCC | "Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici" (IT), non-profit research institution investigating and modeling the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment | http://www.cmcc.it
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| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, standard experimental protocol to collect output in order to evaluate performance and identify errors between modeling centers | http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov
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| CNRS | "Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique" or National Center for Scientific Research, French largest governmental research organisation | http://www.cnrs.fr
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| Curie | Sandy Bridge Bull supercomputer of CEA (FR), 1,5 PFLOPS peak | http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc-curie.htm
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| HAL | "Hyper Articles en Ligne", french open archive of scholarly documents from all academic fields | http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
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| IDRIS | "Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique" or Institute for Development and Resources in Intensive Scientific computing (FR), centre of both high performance computing resources and expertise | http://www.idris.fr
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| INGV | "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (IT), institution gathering all scientific and technical institutions operating in geophysics and volcanology | http://www.ingv.it
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| INRIA | "Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique" or French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics | http://www.inria.fr
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| INSU | "Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers" (FR), CNRS institute for engineering and systems sciences | http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
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| IPSL | "Institut Pierre Simon Laplace" (FR), federation of 9 public research laboratories involved in research on terrestrial and planetary environments | http://www.ipsl.fr
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| LGGE | "Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement" (FR), research laboratory focuses on snow and ice, glaciers, climate and environment | http://lgge.osug.fr
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| Mercator_Océan | Mercator Océan (FR), privately-owned non-profit company providing operational ocean forecast services | http://www.mercator-ocean.fr
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| Met_Office | Meteorological Office (UK), national executive agency and trading fund providing weather and climate services | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk
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| NEMO | Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean |
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| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council, British largest funder of research, training and innovation in environmental science | http://www.nerc.ac.uk
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| NOC | National Oceanography Centre (UK), NERC institute for marine science research and technology | http://noc.ac.uk
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| OASIS | Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil, coupling software to synchronize exchanges of information between numerical codes representing different components of the climate system | http://verc.enes.org/oasis
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| PISCES | Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies, biogeochemical model simulating the lower trophic levels of marine ecosystems and the cycles of carbon and of the main nutrients |
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| RENATER | "REseau NAtional de télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche", french national telecommunications network for research and education | http://www.renater.fr
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| SVN | SubVersioN, open source version control system for sharing, managing content and its changes over time | http://subversion.apache.org
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| TGCC | "Très Grand Centre de Calcul", HPC center of CEA (FR) | http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc.htm
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| Trac | Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects providing an interface to version control system | http://trac.edgewall.org
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| UNIBO | "Università di Bologna" or University of Bologna (IT) | http://www.unibo.it
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| XIOS | Xml Inputs Outputs Server, library dedicated to input/output management of climate code | http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver
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