HPCwire

When natural disaster strikes – be it a flood, an earthquake or a tsunami – every second counts. Just as emergency teams must be ready to go in a moment’s notice so must critical data management systems. This important topic, an essential element of civil protection around the world, is the focus of a research paper, recently published in the Geophysical Research Abstracts. Written by a team of German researchers from Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, the paper describes a resource-independent data management system for urgent natural disaster computing. Such systems are critical to helping public officials make timely decisions for affected areas, getting care to the injured and reducing casualties. Computer simulations can offer predictive scenarios that further aid this decision making process, the authors assert, but this involves routing the data to the required resource. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/04/04/data-management-times-disaster/.