The JWST integrated modeling environment

The growth of distributed teams and their fluctuating membership has introduced new challenges in the areas of collaboration and data management. The development of an environment to integrate distributed teams, processes and data is the catalyst behind the integrated modeling environment (IME). The IME supports the development, execution, user interaction and archiving of models. It provides configuration management, visualization tools, and collaboration capabilities. Additionally, the IME supports creating, managing and developing modeling analyses over their entire life cycles, publishing model and analysis information for availability throughout the user community and managing legacy information without regard to original formats, database organizations or computing platforms.