SEQUOIA 2000-a reflection on the first three years

The purpose of the SEQUOIA 2000 project is to build a better computing environment for global change researchers. Such researchers investigate issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, environment toxification, and species extinction, and are members of Earth Sciences Departments at Universities and National Laboratories. SEQUOIA 2000 is the Digital Equipment Corporation flagship research project for the 1990´s. We describe the SEQUOIA 2000 project and its implementation efforts during the first three years. Included are the objectives we had, how we chose to address them and some of the lessons we learned from this endeavour