Supercomputers to support the Digital Earth Vision

John Graham of the San Diego Supercomputer Center in action.
Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2007



3rd Day of ISDE-5 devoted to the super- computers
Chief Scientist of the Visualisation Center of the San Diego State University John Graham highlighted the features, capabilities and partnership policy of the center. The 4o Tbyte main memory is capable to perform heavy computational tasks. The center hosts the FAO's GeoNetwork and he mentioned as fabolous achievement also the INSPIRE Directive in the context of metadata services. More info: www.telascience.org

Dr.Tetsuya Sato, of the Japanese Earth Simulator.
Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2007
Dr. Tetsuya Sato, Directar General of the Earth Simulator Center of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology introduced the vast simulation and prediction tasks the center dealing with.
More info: www.es.jamstec.go.jp