International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2008)

The Project presented two applications at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden (June 17-19, 2008) at the PSNC booth:

ARGO profiling floats are autonomous oceanographic remote instruments that drift passively with the currents and move up and down the water column at fixed intervals, typically every 5 or 10 days. They performs temperature and salinity vertical profiles. Data acquired are transmitted to satellites and then to OGS (Triests, Italy) for postprocessing, analysis and scientific research. The goal is to integrate the float's workflow in the eInfrastructure, providing a new tool for oceanographic scientists.

Definition of a network-centric simulation system able to exploit the physical seismic structures in different laboratories, as well as the software and the data sets coming from the past experiences of earthquake engineering. Key objectives would be: to implement distributed simulations in quasi real-time using high-speed telecommunication and computing hardware and join physical measurements with models for a more efficient analysis and to allow the fruition of large-scale facilities by wide range of laboratories under an even wider range of conditions and coupled with their own simulations.

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is Europe’s leading Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.

More Information:
http://www.supercomp.de/isc08/content/