New Lead of Systems Department
On September 15, 2023, Carsten Schmitt (right in the picture) succeeds Ulf Garternicht as head of the systems department. DKRZ Managing Director Prof. Thomas Ludwig (on the left in the picture) congratulates and looks forward to a good cooperation.
New "Data Analysis" department headed by Dr. Christopher Kadow
A new "Data Analysis" department headed by Dr. Christopher Kadow started work at DKRZ on September 1, 2023. He will drive the development of the department, which deals with essential topics related to the analysis of climate simulations.
Berlin Summit for EVE: Digital Twins of the Earth
What is the regional impact of climate change? A "digital twin of the Earth" will help to better understand climate change and to adapt to unavoidable climate changes. From July 3-7, 2023, climate researchers collaborated with experts in AI, HPC, climate adaptation and risk management at the Berlin Summit to develop a concept for a new digital infrastructure called Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE). Among the 180 participants from 26 countries were also several Hamburg-based scientists - such as from the DKRZ, the Cluster of Excellence CLiCCS at the University of Hamburg, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, and the Climate Service Center Germany, GERICS.
EUDAT Summer School
Nightless nights, a CO₂-negative supercomputer and concentrated data management knowledge: The EUDAT Summer School 2023 took place from 26 to 30 June 2023 in Kajaani, Finland.
DKRZ at PASC23
The PASC23 conference in the Swiss village of Davos dedicated to the topic of Computing Across Scales, Domains, and Communities” presented form June, 26 to 28, the ideal opportunity for DKRZ colleagues to present their projects and ongoing work to the scientific community.
ERA5 data for 1940-2023 available on Levante
For several years, DKRZ has been offering ERA5 reanalyses data to its users. This data set has been recently updated to cover the period from January 1940 to March 2023. The data can be accessed via /pool/data/ERA5 on the DKRZ supercomputer Levante; it is also accessible via an intake catalogue.
Expansion of the exascale data archive at DKRZ
DKRZ will commission two new Spectra Logic Tfinity magnetic tape libraries in June 2023, which were supplied by Cristie Data at the end of March following a Europe-wide tender.
ISC'23: Levante on rank 60 of the TOP500 list
At the ISC High Performance 2023 in Hamburg, the new Top500 list of the most powerful HPC systems was released. DKRZ's supercomputer Levante is listed on rank 60.
Helmholtz AI-Conference
The Helmholtz AI conference 2023 will take place on 12–14 June in Hamburg. The conference will bring together AI/ML experts and researchers across research fields to discuss the latest research results and use cases in applied AI/ML.
New Project Office of the World Climate Research Program at DKRZ
The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) opens a new International Project Office (IPO) at DKRZ, Germany, from which its new core project "Earth System Modeling and Monitoring" (ESMO) is coordinated.
Preview: DKRZ at ISC'23 in Hamburg
This year's ISC High Performance will take place from May 21 to 25, 2023 in the Congress Center in Hamburg. DKRZ is participating with contributions to the conference program and presents its work at a booth (J908) at the exhibition.
Workshop 2023 on further development of the natESM strategy
After a break of almost three years due to the pandemic, on March 30 and 31, 2023 the natESM community met in person in Berlin: The 70 participants discussed the further development of the national Earth system modeling strategy in plenary discussions and various working groups and used the workshop for networking.
Royal visit in Hamburg
The British King Charles III. finished his three-day visit to Germany on Friday, March 31, 2023 in Hamburg. DKRZ director Thomas Ludwig accompanied Charles and his royal consorts on a harbor tour.
DKRZ workshop on machine learning
On March 29 and 30, 2023, a team consisting of Étienne Plésiat, Johannes Meuer, Christopher Kadow and Caroline Arnold offered 25 DKRZ users a hands-on workshop on the application of machine learning methods (ML) in climate science. The aim was to train the participants in such a way that they could then carry out an ML project independently in their own work area.
Activities of DKRZ, CLICCS and CEN at EGU
From April, 23rd to 28th, the DKRZ team and scientists from the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and CEN will present their research at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna/Austria. At the annual conference, more than 15,000 scientists from over a hundred countries usually meet to exchange ideas on topics from all disciplines of earth, planetary and space sciences.
Start for WarmWorld modules Better and Easier
After the successful start of the BMBF funded project WarmWorld with the module Faster in September last year, March 1st, 2023, now also marks the official start of the next two modules Better and Easier.
ESiWACE in Barcelona and on YouTube
The Center of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe (ESiWACE) is starting its third phase. After seven years as coordinator, DKRZ passed the flag to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center during a meeting from January 30 to February 2, 2023 in Barcelona. The DKRZ will continue to accompany ESiWACE3 as co-coordinator and will further be responsible for the work package data challenges.
2nd “Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook” published: 1.5-degree goal not plausible
On February, 1st, 2023, the Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) published the second edition of its study „Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook“. More than 60 researchers systematically assessed to what extent social changes are already underway — while also analyzing certain physical processes frequently discussed as tipping points.
50th anniversary of the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km resolution
Fifty years ago, the crew onboard the spacecraft Apollo 17 was on their way to the moon and looked back to take a picture of Earth: The Blue Marble. The photo, taken at 10:39 UTC on December 7, 1972, has become one of the most iconic images mankind has ever produced.
Research projects on energy efficiency of HPC and computing centers
As part of the BMBF program "High and high-performance computing for the digital age 2021 to 2024 - research and investments in high-performance computing", the Federal Ministry of Research is funding ten Green-HPC. The DKRZ is network leader for the EECliPs project and partner in the EE-HPC project.
Preview: SC22
The Supercomputing Conference 2022 (SC22) will bring together the international HPC community from 13 to 18 November in Dallas/USA to exchange views on key issues and new developments in HPC, networking, storage technologies, software and hardware as well as applications and research. The DKRZ team is also involved in the scientific conference programme, both by participating in a Bird-of-Feather session and in the poster exhibition.
Team EagleEyes wins ML challenge
The "EagleEyes" team, with the participation of Frauke Albrecht and Caroline Arnold from the Helmholtz AI support team HAICU/AIM at DKRZ, wins the "AI4EO Hyperview" Challenge.
User workshop 2022 on the future of climate research
After a break of almost three years due to the pandemic, about 70 participants met in person in Hamburg on October, 12 and 13, 2022 for a DKRZ user workshop.
Climateurope2 kick-off
The Climateurope2 consortium came together for the project kick-off in Lecce, Italy, on 27-29 September 2022. The project is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and brings together 33 partners - among them DKRZ - from 13 countries that cover a large spectrum of expertise from the social sciences and humanities to a wide range of technical expertise and climate services experience.
GPU Programming Hackathon 2022
From September 19th to 29th, 2022 this year's "CSCS GPU Hackathon 2022" - partly virtual and partly in presence - took place in Lugano, Switzerland.
Supercomputer "Levante" was inaugurated at DKRZ
The new supercomputer Levante was inaugurated on September 22, 2022 at DKRZ with high-ranking representatives from politics and science. The welcoming speeches were followed by two panel discussions on the challenges of climate research, which highlighted Hamburg's excellent reputation as a focal point for climate research.
WarmWorld: Exascale EarthSystem Models to anticipate changes in a Warmer World
September 1st marks the official start of the BMBF-funded project WarmWorld. The aim of the ambitious four-year project is to harness advances in information technology to compute and evaluate climate warming trajectories at unprecedented kilometer-scales, which enable the direct simulation of crucial processes in the climate system, like convective storms and ocean eddies.
Invitation to the inauguration of HLRE-4 "Levante"
The inauguration ceremony for the new high-performance computing system for Earth system research (HLRE-4) "Levante" will take place on 22 September 2022. The event language will be German.
PASC22: Advanced scientific computing
Up to 300 scientists will attend this year's PASC22 (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing) conference in Basel, Switzerland, June 27-29, 2022, with an additional one hundred participants joining via video conference. PASC22 is led by the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS). DKRZ is participating with various contributions.