Data Management

DKRZ runs a system especially for scientific data management services. Data resulting from simulations at DKRZ need to be further processed before delivering the data to scientific users through a relational database management system.

The main tasks of the system:

Pre-and post-processing in terms of long-term data storage in the CERA climate database or the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)
Storage of essential WDCC data on a parallel file system
Integration of data ressources into national and international climate data federations
Deployment of portal services to the databases

Technically, the data management system is based on a Blade Center by Dell, whose servers are set up on different virtual machines and a 1.2 petabyte storage system of DDN.

10 Dell M605 Blades

two AMD Opteron 4-Core 2.9 GHz
32 or 64 GB main memory

1 Dell M605 blade with two AMD Opteron 2.4 GHz 6-Core
1 Sun 490, 8 Cores, 32 GB main memory
3 Sun T2000, 8 Cores, 32 GB main memory

Addititional systems for DKRZ's basic services:

6 Dell M610 Blades

two Intel Xeon E5540 4-core 2.5 GHz
48 GB main memory

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