Consortium
The EESI project consortium has been designed to represent a cross-section of European and international key actors in the field of HPC. The partnership has a deep and broad expertise in all the technological and strategic aspects related to HPC.
The consortium is composed of:
- 2 contractual partners: TOTAL & PRACE
- 29 organizations which act as chairs and vice chairs of Work Packages and tasks
- Around 100 experts who contribute through the project tasks and working groups.
DKRZ: the German Climate Computing Centre provides the tools and associated services which are needed to investigate the processes in the climate system: Computer power, data management and guidance to use these tools efficiently. As a national service provider, DKRZ operates a supercomputer center to enable climate simulation and provides the scientific users with the technical infrastructure needed for processing and analysis of climate data. This also includes support for related application software, advice and support in data processing issues. Finally, DKRZ also participates in national and international joint projects with the aim of improving the infrastructure for climate modeling.
DKRZ thus constitutes an outstanding research infrastructure for model-based simulations of global climate change and its regional effects. This mission is consistent with the new High-Tech Strategy for climate protection as presented by Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister for Education and Research, at the second Climate Research Summit in Berlin in October 2007.
Personnel involved in EESI
Person involved: Thomas Ludwig.
