Data webs for earth science data

We describe high performance data webs for earth science data, which are designed for interactively analyzing small to moderate size remote data sets, as well as mining distributed data sets. Achieving high performance required developing specialized high performance transport services as well as specialized high performance middleware services for merging multiple data streams. Data webs complement data grids, which are grid based infrastructures designed to support arbitrary distributed computation over distributed data using a trusted computing model.