Cutting edge climate data management in Salento with Unidata Grant

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It was in 2011 when for the first time a European institution won a Unidata Equpment Award. The project, proposed by The University of Salento in close collaboration with CMCC, aimed at establishing a data management platform for climate change data related to the Mediterranean area, at the High Performance Computing Laboratory in Lecce.
The equipment purchased with the grant has helped to create a strong facility for the HPC Laboratory at the University of Salento, where students have been able to test and learn more about Unidata software.
Prof. Giovanni Aloisio, Dr. Sandro Fiore, Dr. Osvaldo Marra (authors of the proposal) wrote a post in the Unidata blog, where they explain that students were supported by CMCC personnel, “who have a strong background in (i) Virtual Machine environments (e.g. based on the ESXI software), (ii) THREDDS software installation and configuration, and (iii) NetCDF format, libraries, and tools.
Not only the new equipment produced several educational and research benefits for students last year, but it also is used this year (2011-2012), with a stronger focus on the NetCDF C library and parallel data mining applications exploiting MPI and OpenMP.

“This Unidata community equipment grant – the authors concluded – has been a great and successful experience. Overall the students were so excited and interested in working on such challenging climate data management topics with strong scientific tools, software and libraries”.

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