Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation

Session

Lectures (Thursday morning)

005

27 Aug 2009, 09:00

Kulturni Dom of Veli Lošinj

37. Climate change computational challenges and the role of grid infrastructures

Filippo Giorgi (ICTP Physics of Weather and Climate Section)

27/08/2009, 09:00

Meteorology and Climatology

One of the main challenges within the climate change debate is to provide accurate climate change information at the regional to local scales, so that policy decisions on adaptation and mitigation options can be taken at the national or sub-national level. This requires the use of high resolution climate models as well as the completion of large ensembles of simulations to characterize the...

10. EnviroGrids: Sustainable Development of the Black Sea Catchment

Nicolas Ray (UNEP and University of Geneva)

27/08/2009, 09:45

The Black Sea Catchment is recognized for its ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management. The 4-year FP7-funded EnviroGRIDS project (start: April 2009, 27 partners) will address these issues by developing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) targeting this region and linked to the EGEE infrastructure. A large catalogue of environmental data sets (e.g. landuse,...

11. Distributed Data Handling Infrastructures in Climatology and the Grid

Stephen Kindermann (DKRZ Hamburg)

27/08/2009, 10:30

Modern coupled climate models are mostly running on dedicated, tightly coupled HPC computers. They produce exponentially growing amounts of data. This model data is becoming important for a large, diverse group of people. A powerful data handling and processing infrastructure for climate scientists is needed to support them in finding, accessing, comparing data as well as generating new...