The Benefits and Complexities of Operating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in a High Performance Computing (HPC) Environment

James Shute1, Laura Carriere2, Daniel Duffy3, Elizabeth Embury Hoy4, Julien Peters5, Yingshuo Shen2 and Dalia Kirschbaum6, (1)CSRA/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Climate Model Data Service, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)CNR-IRPI, Perugia, Italy