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High-tech in Earth System Science
14 November 2005 :: Age: 5 yrs
Category: Press Release
Break-through values achieved for databases, climate computing and grid technologies: Record-breaking high-tech has been successfully employed in Earth System Science at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany.
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The world's biggest Linux database stores climate data
14 November 2005 :: Age: 5 yrs
Category: Press Release
Record database at the German Climate Computing Centre's World Data Centre for Climate: The World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC) and the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg run the largest database in the world under the free Linux operating system. This is confirmed in the international ranking list of the world's largest databases published by the Winter Corporation in September. The WDCC database at the DKRZ has an inconceivable volume of almost 220 terabytes and is about double the size of the database of a well know search engine.
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New TerraFlops Issue #6
25 October 2005 :: Age: 5 yrs
Category: Model, Data
TerraFlops Issue Number 6 - October 2005 is available[read more »]
First model simulations for the new IPCC-Report completed
15 February 2005 :: Age: 6 yrs
Category: Press Release
Press release of MPI-M, DKRZ and the Model and Data group (M&D) (15.02.2005)[read more »]
Temperature variations in the last millennium were probably larger than assumed so far
27 September 2004 :: Age: 6 yrs
Category: Press Release
Widely-used methods to reconstruct past global climate variations based on the analysis of palaeoclimatic proxy-data (from tree-rings, corals and ice-cores, among others) probably underestimate the amplitude of the real variations by a factor up to two, and possibly more.[read more »]