Untitled - The Future Ocean

components, along with optimized implementations on various high-performance computingplatforms, including the NEC-SX8 at CAU, as well as the HLRN (HochleistungsrechnerverbundNorddeutschland), the DKRZ (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum) and the HLRS(Bundeshöchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart). Marine seismic measurements are the mosteffective method for gathering information on structures and compositions below the sea surface.Modern methods are available for structure imaging, inversion and modeling. In addition,developments in modern data processing systems can potentially lead to substantial improvementsin managing the vast data sets typical of geoscience applications.The Interdisciplinary Center for Numerical Simulation (ICN) was recently established to collect andfocus computational efforts and research in various disciplines at CAU. Proponents from appliedmathematics, scientific computing and combinatorial optimization have expertise in thediscretization of boundary value problems and the efficient treatment of large systems, in particularthe treatment of non-local high-dimensions operators by multi-scale and tensor product methods.Expertise in large-scale optimization and regularization has been gained, e.g., in shapeoptimization, combinatorial and stochastic optimization, including discrepancy analysis andelectronic structure calculations. Proponents of the ICN are involved in the EU TMR and IHPNetwork EU NEST Project BIGDFT. They have contributed to SFB 393, Research Training Group(Graduiertenkolleg) 357 and priority programs SPP1126, SPP1145, and SPP1253. The prominentrole of numerical analysis at CAU has been established by Prof. Hackbusch, currently member ofthe Board of Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI) in Leipzig,and recipient of the Leibniz Award. The present platform will benefit from his on-going presence atCAU and close collaboration with his group at MPI Leipzig. The development of the ICN has beenrecognized by the government of Schleswig-Holstein within the framework of a venture capital(Innovationsfonds) program by supporting a W2 faculty position in applied mathematics. Thisposition, together with a new W3 position in numerical mathematics, will supplement thecomputational mathematics group in the ICN and the Cluster within the next year. The SeismicProcessing Center (SPC) at IFM-GEOMAR has been appointed by the EU as a Large-ScaleResearch Facility within their HCM, TMR and IHP programs for more than 10 years. The hardwareand software facilities comprised there are unique in the European academic community in theirsize, functionality and sophistication. Software devoted to the analysis and processing of seismicdata includes efficient migration algorithms, modeling techniques, inversion methods, signalprocessing, and 3-D visualization. Strong expertise in data management and data mining will beprovided by leading experts (ICN) in data base systems, with additional expertise in dataprocessing and data mining systems. The Kolmogorov honorary professorship at LomonosovMoscow State University was conferred upon one of the proponents in 2005.4. New Cluster Technologies─ Kiel Climate Model System (KCMS): The KCMS will be based on joint expertise on highresolutionatmospheric and ocean circulation, including biogeochemical modeling at IFM-GEOMAR95