@InProceedings{kobler:eosdis,
  author = {Ben Kobler and John Berbert and Parris Caulk and P.~C. Hariharan},
  title = {Architecture and Design of Storage and Data Management for the {NASA
  Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage
  Systems},
  year = {1995},
  month = {September},
  pages = {65--76},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  URL = {http://www.computer.org/conferen/mss95/kobler/kobler.htm},
  keywords = {mass storage, I/O architecture, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) is a long-term NASA research
  mission to study the processes leading to global climate change. The EOS Data
  and Information System (EOSDIS) is the component within MTPE that will
  provide the Earth science community with easy, affordable, and reliable
  access to Earth science data. EOSDIS is a distributed system, with major
  facilities at eight Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) located
  throughout the United States. At the DAACs the Science Data Processing
  Segment (SDPS) will receive, process, archive, and manage all data. It is
  estimated that several hundred gigaflops of processing power will be required
  to process and archive the several terabytes of new data that will be
  generated and distributed daily. Thousands of science users and perhaps
  several hundred thousand nonscience users will access the system.}
}