Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth
cime (pronounced: seem) represents the infrastructure code for the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME). cime providess scripts for configuration, build, and testing of models, as well as code for data and stub models for climate components, and a driver code for bringing all the climate components together in a single executable.
cime was initially extracted from CESM as a stand-alone capability in 2015 by members of the CSEG group at NCAR, the software engineering team of the CESM model. The CSEG group had been developing this infrastrucure within CESM for a number of years using NSF and DOE funding. After version 4 was released, a joint development partnership was started with the software engineering group of ACME, a DOE-funded project, which had branched from CESM in 2014. Starting with development of version 5, cime is cooperative effort with contributions and ownership from members of both teams.
The following table documents the developers who have contributed to cime, showing what versions of they contributed to, and with what source(s) of support.
| Name | Institution | Versions | Funding Source (for versions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mariana Vertenstein | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF, DOE |
| Jim Edwards | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF (1-D), DOE(1-2) |
| Jim Foucar | SNL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Rob Jacob | ANL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Bill Sacks | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF, DOE |
| Andreas Wilke | ANL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Jason Sarich | ANL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Michael Deakin | SNL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Erich Foster | SNL | 5 - D | DOE |
| Alice Bertini | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF |
| Chris Fischer | NCAR | 5 - D | NSF |
| Steve Goldhaber | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF, DOE |
| Mike Levy | NCAR | 1 - D | NSF, DOE |
| Sean Santos | NCAR | 1 - 4 | NSF |
Key: D = Current development version (i.e. still active on project)