Preview: DKRZ at ISC'16

DKRZ is one of the almost 150 exhibitors at the this year’s International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) from 19th to 23rd June 2015 iin Frankfurt. As one of the most important international events for HPC and as the greatest European HPC-exhibition, ISC brings together several HPC providers, universities and research institutes.

Interactive programming course for DKRZ

The research group "Scientific computing" at DKRZ has been supporting the university lectures about efficient programming for several years. Within the scope of Hamburg Open Online University the project “Interactive C-programming course” was initiated.

HLRE-3 phase 2 heralded

The delivery of the first 10 compute racks visually marked the start of the installation of HLRE-3 "Mistral's" second phase. Mistral's computing power and storage capacity will be more than doubled by the extensions installed during the next months.

Kick-off for PalMod: A national paleo climate modelling initiative

With the kick-off meeting on February 1./2. at the Hafencity University Hamburg, the PalMod project has started its ambitious goals to simulate a complete glacial cycle - from the last interglacial to the anthropocene. The PalMod project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) to understand climate system dynamics and variability during the last glacial cycle.

DKRZ@SC15

This year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC15) will be held in Austin, USA, from 15th till 20th November, 2015, and will bring together more than 10,000 scientists, users, and stakeholders from the field of high performance computing (HPC). At its SC15 exhibition booth no. 2606, DKRZ will present its new HPC system “Mistral”, introduce the currently started EU project “Centre of Excellence - ESiWACE" and show climate simulations. On the latest TOP500 list of the largest supercomputer system, which is traditionally released at the SC conference, Mistral is on rank 64.

Senator for Science Fegebank visits KlimaCampus Hamburg

Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science in Hamburg, Germany, visited the KlimaCampus Hamburg for a meet and greet. To get a better overview of the various scientific activities related to climate research and climate adaptation research in Hamburg, Fegebank met with the leaders of the institutes that form the KlimaCampus Hamburg at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) on 10.19.2015.

Kick-off for ESiWACE and ESCAPE

ESiWACE and ESCAPE: integrating leading edge climate and weather simulations into Europe’s strategy for High Performance Computing (HPC).

DKRZ@ISC'15

DKRZ presents on its ISC'15 High Performance booth no. 550 its new high performance computer HLRE-3 (Hochleistungsrechnersystem für die Erdsystemforschung 3) consisting of the PetaFLOPS-System "Mistral" by Bull/Atos and a hierarchical storage management system (HSM) based on HPSS by IBM. During the ISC’15 the latest Top500 List of the most powerful high performance computer systems is released. The first configuration level of Mistral at DKRZ is on rank 56 of the list. In Germany it is the sixth-largest HPC system.

Preview: Girls'Day at DKRZ

On April, 23rd , 2015 - the official Girls’Day - DKRZ welcomes two groups of 10 to 16 years old, female future scientists, who wants to get to know everything about the profession as a climate researcher.

EUDAT2020 - Unified Access to European Research Data

The project partners of EUDAT 2020, a project recently funded with 19 million Euros within the EU's Horizon2020 program, held a kick-off meeting in Helsinki from March 24th to March 26th, 2015. EUDAT 2020, started on March 1st, 2015, is a follow-up project to the FP7 project EUDAT, which initially started on October 1st, 2011.

New Supercomputer at DKRZ starts operation: Mistral

Mistral: like this wind, this new high performance computer comes from France. The French computer manufacturer Bull, an Atos company, installed the first phase of of this new system, which will replace DKRZ's IBM Power6 named Blizzard this summer. Blizzard has been serving climate research since 2009.

ESGF Achievement Award

On the occasion of the „Earth System Grid Federation and Ultrascale Visualization Climate Data Analysis Tools Conference”, which took place from December 9th-12th, 2014, at the PCMDI of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, DKRZ staff member Torsten Rathmann received an “ESGF Outstanding Achievement Award 2014” for the unfailing support he delivered to the users of the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF).

Preview: DKRZ@SC'14

The Supercomputing Conference (SC’14) takes place from the 15th till 21st November 2014 in New Orleans, USA. Probably more than 10,000 scientists, users, vendors and decision makers will attend this important international conference on high performance computing. At its booth (number 603) DKRZ, as one of more than 350 exhibitors, will give a preview on its forthcoming PetaFLOPS-supercomputer, will inform about its data services and will show visualizations of climate simulations.

HLRE-3 Porting System

Bull delivers a system for the migration of climate codes to the HLRE-3 architecture

Just published: The DKRZ yearbook

The yearbook of DKRZ for the years 2012-2013 show a good profile of all the activities at DKRZ. It summerizes the results of important completed projects and takes a look at ongoing and newly started projects.

DKRZ and Bull sign contract for HLRE-3

DKRZ chooses Bull for its first Petaflops-scale supercomputer and for cooperation on HPC support for climate research in Germany, as part of an initial contract worth 26 million euro…

DKRZ@SC13

The this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC13) takes place from the 16th till 22nd November 2013 in Denver. More than 10,000 scientists, users, vendors and decision makers as well as more than 350 exhibitors attend the most important international conference on high performance computing that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. DKRZ, looking back on 26 years of climate computing, invites visitors to go on a journey back in time through 25 years of DKRZ at its booth (number 329).