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Markus Koerner: IBM Platform to Help Int’l Researchers Store Environmental Data

Markus Koerner: IBM Platform to Help Int'l Researchers Store Environmental Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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data Servers IBM has provided a big data technology to the German Climate Computing Center to aid in environmental information storage and analysis efforts.

The center adopted the High Performance Storage System with the goal of helping researchers manage petabytes of climate simulation data, IBM said Friday.

IBM built the HPSS platform in collaboration with the U.S. Energy Department.

“We believe the technology and services we provide for this big data challenge will significantly help advance the science of climate change,” said Markus Koerner, vice president of IBM’s global technology services business.

HPSS is designed to employ the company’s DB2 database management tool and offer a data access speed rate of up to 12 gigabytes per second.

The technology was integrated into the German Climate Computing Center’s hierarchical storage management infrastructure, according to IBM.

Researchers use the facility’s climate data archive to study changes in the Earth’s temperature, predict the environmental and geographical impacts of oil spills and aircraft traffic as well as to develop models for sustainable building construction and weather monitoring.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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