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23.05.2012
Research facilities collaborate on data management and analysis
Russian and German partners develop new IT approaches
European XFEL, DESY, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow will cooperate to develop IT solutions for large scientific facilities. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on collaboration to find new data management and data analysis solutions was signed on 22 May in Berlin during the closing event of the German–Russian Year of Education, Science, and Innovation 2011–2012. On 19 July 2011, the German and Russian ministries of research agreed on collaboration in the field of large-scale data management in high-performance computing.
Signature of the “Memorandum of Understanding on collaboration to develop data management and data analysis solutions for large-scale scientific experimental facilities” on 22 May 2012 in Berlin. From left to right: Mikhail V. Rychev (Deputy Director, Special Representative of Kurchatov Centre in European International Organisations), Annette Schavan (Federal Minister of Education and Research), Andrei A. Fursenko (Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation), Massimo Altarelli (Chairman of the Management Board, European XFEL), Christian Scherf (Director of Administration, DESY), Inna Bilenkina (Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation), Serguei Molodtsov (Scientific Director, European XFEL), Sebastian M. Schmidt (Member of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich), Thomas Lippert (Head of Jülich Supercomputing Centre). (Photo: BMBF)
Experiments at new large research facilities, such as the European XFEL, produce enormous amounts of data that need to be stored, maintained, and made available for analysis. This challenging task requires a new way of thinking about how data is managed and how to provide acomputing infrastructure that will support scientists during and after their experiments. The European XFEL can serve as a pilot project for further collaboration between DESY, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Kurchatov Institute in this area.
Andreas S. Schwarz, Scientific Director of European XFEL: “Together with DESY, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Kurchatov Institute, we want to develop new approaches to the computing challenges modern research infrastructures face.” Volker Gülzow, head of the DESY IT department, adds: “The great experience and competence in large-scale data management and HPC computing of the partner institutes in combination with the experiments at the European XFEL open up a special chance to find efficient solutions for the IT challenges for science at the European XFEL and beyond.”
