DKRZ took an active part in the EGU in Wien, Austria

From April 8 to 13, 2018, more than 15,000 scientists from more than one hundred countries met in Vienna for the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which addresses topics from all disciplines of earth, planetary and space sciences. Employees of the DKRZ participated in the comprehensive conference program with numerous pico presentations (Pico = Presenting Interactive Content), workshops, lectures, presentations and posters.

The DKRZ long-term archive has assigned its 1000th DOI

The DKRZ long-term archive WDCC (World Data Center for Climate) has assigned its 1000th DataCite DOI to the experiment OceanRAIN-M of the project “Ocean Rainfall And Ice-phase precipitation measurement Network”.

New online services for DKRZ users

DKRZ not only provides HPC resources and storage systems, but additionally offers online services that support users in all phases of their work, from software development through model analysis to data analysis.

Energy efficency of the computing system Mistral

DKRZ has been working on the optimization of its energy efficiency since 2011 in order to fulfill its environmental responsibility. Thus, the tender of the high-performance computer Mistral included the requirement to minimize energy consumption. High performance computing systems need a lot of energy. Supercomputers, such as Mistral at the DKRZ, consume about as much energy as 1,000 private households, but on an area of only 200 m². However, the energy is reasonably used to make predictions about possible climate changes and to provide this knowledge to decision makers in politics and the economy.

Kickoff for the project EOSC-hub

On January, 9th, 2018, the EOSC-hub project funded by Horizon202020 was launched in Amsterdam. The aim of this project is the integration of various European providers of services, software and data for data-driven research.

DKRZ@SC‘17 in Denver, USA

At the moment the 30th Supercomputing Conference 2017 (SC'17) ‑ the world's largest High Performance Computing (HPC) event is taking place. From November 12-18, more than 13,000 manufacturers, experts and users meet in Denver, USA, to discuss the latest innovations in HPC, networking, storage, analysis and big data. DKRZ also participates in the SC'17.

Agreement on long-term financing of DKRZ's climate computer signed

Today the First Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, the president of the Helmholtz Association, Prof. Dr. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler, and the president of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann, signed a long-term financing agreement for the high performance computer at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) on 24th October 2017.

Relaunch of the DKRZ Website

In order to optimize the process of locating and accessing the desired information, the DKRZ website has been revised, restructured, and partly extended.

French minister of science visits university of Hamburg

On 1st September 2017, the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Prof. Frédérique Vidal, visited the University of Hamburg. Her special interest was in the field of climate research. Previously, Vidal and her German colleague, Johanna Wanka, have agreed in Paris to work more closely on central future issues with a special focus on international climate and energy research.

Usergroup Workshop in October 2017

The DKRZ user goup invites to the user group workshop, held from October, 9th, to October, 10th, 2017 in Hamburg. The workshop includes exciting talks, five working goups offering possibility to exchange experiences and a poster exhibition. Dierctly after the workshop three user training courses about programming and data analyse tools are offered by DKRZ.

Phase 6 of CMIP started

CMIP6, the sixth phase of CMIP (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) has started. Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), many hundreds of climate researchers worldwide will compare and analyze the outcomes of the latest global climate models.

Mistral on rank 38 of TOP500 list

The latest TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was published during the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’17), which took place in Frankfurt from 19th till 22nd June. The supercomputer Mistral at DKRZ is listed on rank 38 of the list and is currently the third most powerful HPC system in Germany. DKRZ will again contribute to the program of the ISC'17 – one of the most important international events for High Performance Computing.

DKK: Fact-checking for climate change

Statement by the DKK (Deutsches Klimakonsortium) on the occasion of the discussions after the withdrawal of the USA from the Paris Climate Agreement

Preview: DKRZ at the ISC'17

DKRZ will again contribute to the program of the upcoming International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) – one of the most important international events for High Performance Computing – which will take place from 18th to 22nd of June in Frankfurt.

DKRZ@EGU 2017

Almost 14,500 attendees from more than one hundred countries came together at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which took place from 23rd until 28th April 2017 in Vienna/Austria. Scientists presented their work and projects in about 6,000 orals and PICO presentations as well as in more than 11,000 poster contributions. DKRZ employees participated with various activities to the EGU program.

Intelligent fire protection for the DKRZ data archive

In the beginning of March 2017, DKRZ put an oxygen reduction system for the data archive as a preventive fire protection measure into operation. In one of the world's largest data archives, DKRZ has now stored 55 petabytes of resulting data sets from climate simulations which have been calculated over the last 30 years. The new oxygen reduction system is designed to help prevent fires.

New look for DKRZ’ World Data Center for Climate

After a thorough revision, the web portal of the climate database system at DKRZ (long term archive, DKRZ-LTA) appears in a new design, offers many new functionalities and is much faster and more user-friendly than the previous version.

Happy Christmas!

DKRZ wishes its partners, supporters and users happy, peaceful and relaxing Christmas holidays and a Happy New Year.

SeaDataCloud Kickoff

From 28th to 30th of November 2016 the kickoff meeting of the Horizon2020 project SeaDataCloud took place in Riga. One focus of this project, involving 55 partners from 34 countries, is the further development of existing services and standards for research data from the SeaDataNet network, in which more than hundred oceanographic data centers have been organized.

EUDAT Collaborative Infrastructure

Together with 15 other European partners, the DKRZ has recently established the EUDAT Collaborative Infrastructure (EUDAT-CDI). The common goal of this partnership is to provide - independent of project funding - a long-term perspective for scientists and research networks for services and the management of research data.

Mistral on rank 34 of TOP500 list

The latest TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was published on 14th November during the Supercomputing Conference (SC’16), which takes place in Salt Lake City / USA from 13th till 18th November. With a LINPACK performance of 3.01 PetaFLOPS, the final stage of the supercomputer Mistral at DKRZ is listed on rank 34 of the list and is currently the third most powerful HPC system in Germany.

The new coupling software YAC for Earth system models

The new, freely available software library YAC 1.2.0 (short for: Yet Another Coupler) has been developed by the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) to realize an efficient coupling of Earth system model components.

Preview: DKRZ@SC'16

From 13th to 18th November 2016 Salt Lake City hosts the this year’s SC’16 conference – the largest event in the field of high performance computing (HPC) with more than 10,000 expected attendees. DKRZ presents itself and its services on booth 4518 as one of 350 exhibitors of the SC’16 exhibition that takes place parallel to the conference.

DKRZ long-term archive DSA-certified

During the last months, the long-term archive of DKRZ (DKRZ-LTA) went through a certification process according to the criteria of the "Data Seal of Approval" (DSA).

Mistral: Final expansion stage of the high-performance computer at DKRZ starts operation

On June 28th, 2016, company Atos/Bull handed over the second expansion stage of supercomputer Mistral to the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg. Since July 4th, 2016, the third „High-performance computing system for Earth system research“ (HLRE-3), with a peak performance of approximately 3.5 quadrillion numerical operations per second, has been available to the climate research community.

Cooperation Agreement between the DKRZ and JAMSTEC

The DKRZ and its Japanese counterpart, the Center for Earth Information Science and Technology (CEIST), that operates the Earth Simulator at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), have signed a cooperation agreement.

Mistral on rank 33 of the TOP500-list

The latest TOP500 list of supercomputers was released this morning (20th June) during the opening to the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany, from 19th to 23rd June 2016. With a peak performance of 3.14 PetaFLOPS, the final stage of DKRZ’ system Mistral is listed on rank 33. Within Germany it is at the moment the fifth largest HPC system.