Sun and Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology team to build data Grid for Earth system research

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Primeur Weekly 06 June 2005

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Sun and Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology team to build data Grid for Earth system research

Munich 18 May 2005

Sun Microsystems and the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) are working together in the Research and Development area of Grid technologies for numerical data-intensive storage for Earth system research. The common engagement has been signed for a two-year period. The partnership is concentrating in first instance on the reserach and the introduction of innovative, efficient, platform-independent, and process-oriented Grid technologies for scientific application of modelling experiments.

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Sun is responsible for the know how transfer of products and solutions and is taking on a co-ordinating role between MPI-M and the involved Sun Engineering Departments. In addition, Sun will make available to MPI-M a software package based on special product portfolios for further development.

Since 25 years MPI-M has been occupied with climate modelling. In the future, the Institute will focus on the complex research area of Earth system modelling. The Alfred-Wegener-Institute for polar and sea research in Bremerhaven, the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH, the University of Hamburg on behalf of the Center for Sea and Climate Research and the Max-Planck Society for MPI-M are running together the German Climate Research Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg.

At the DKRZ high performance computing simulations are being performed. Huge data files up to a few Terabytes are being processed. The common data processing results across the distributed systems at the DKRZ Society is being returned for further interpretation to the scientific research partners at DKRZ.

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