DKRZ invests 60 million Euro for new facilities and a new high performance computer system. Further information is found at the press report from the 9th November 2007.
The construction works of the new DKRZ building, which are funded with 26 million Euro by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, have started in winter 2007/08. The new high performance computing system (HLRE2) was installed in the new building in February/March 2009. The regular computing service for our users has started in April 2009. As scheduled the staff of DKRZ and M&D will move into the new offices in fall 2009. Detailed information here…
The new supercomputer an IBM Power6 system, will exceed the capacity of the existing system approximately 60 times. With a peak performance of 158 Teraflop/s (158 trillion floating point operations per second) the computer will belong to the world-wide largest supercomputers being used for scientific purposes.
On the one hand, this new acquisition allows computing projections of future climate in more detail, because more complex processes and interactions can be included in the models. On the other hand, the spatial resolution of the climate models will be enhanced. Thus also regional phenomena could be seized substantially more accurately than today. Detailed information here ....