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           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
         (MS = Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle)

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                                 DATABASE
              MS4171, at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday 20 October 1992

                            Michael Stonebraker
                     University of California-Berkley

                   " SEQUOIA 2000 LARGE CAPACITY OBJECT
                SERVERS TO SUPPORT GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH"

Better data management is crucial to the success of scientific
investigations of Global Change.  Achieving the goals of the U.S.  Global
Change Research Program will depend not only on improved measurement
systems, but also on improved data systems that will allow scientists to
manipulate the resulting large-scale data sets and climate system models,
as well as compare model results with observations.  New modes of research,
especially the synergistic interactions between observations and model-
based simulations, will require massive amounts of diverse data to be
stored, organized, accessed, distributed, visualized, and analyzed.  The
SEQUOIA 2000 project involves computer scientists and environmental
researchers at several UC campuses who are collaborating to address these
challenges.  Specific tasks in very large scale I/O systems, migrating file
systems, extensible data base management, repository management and
visualization are underway and will be described.