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5.8 System operating
System operating will have to ensure local system access, component and services monitoring
as well as hardware, physical and logical maintenance. Figure 6 illustrates operating access
using local console, remote access, monitoring and physical maintenance.
Fig. 6. Operating using local console access, remote access, monitoring and physical
maintenance.
6. Resources prerequisites
The complexity of these aspects shows why the integration of computing resources has takes
so much time and why this is on the turn now. When we want do the planning for future
resources and consumptive prerequisites there are essential requirements for technical and
competence resources. For the technical resources we have to implement efficient and effective
general purpose system installations, for loosely as well as for massively parallel processing:
• Architecture (e.g. MPP Massively Parallel Processing / SMP Symmetric Multi-Processing),
• Accessing Computing Power (MPI /OpenMP / loosely coupled interactive),
• Efficiency (Computing Power / Power Consumption),
• Storage and Archive.
For the competence resources a sustainable infrastructure has to be built, regarding research,
scientific consulting, staff, operation, systems management, technical consulting, and
administrative measures. Goals with using these resources are dynamically provisioning
of secondary information, calculation and computation results, modeling and simulation.
For exploiting the existing and future compute and storage resources, the basic “trust in
computing” and “trust in information” requirements have therefore to be implemented
in complex environments. For many scenarios this leads to international collaborations
for data collection and use as well as to modular development and operation of
components. The geosciences as other natural sciences cannot fulfill these requirements
without interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
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