The Human Brain Project: Creating a European Research Infrastructure to Decode the Human Brain

JUSUF is a petaflop supercomputer operated by Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich as a European supercomputing and cloud resource. JUSUF was funded via the ICEI project and especially serves the Human Brain Project and PRACE via ICEI and the Fenix Research Infrastructure. The system consists of two parts, an HPC cluster partition and an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud partition. The system entered production phase in spring 2020. It is based on the Bull X400 product family with AMD Rome processors, partially accelerated by Nvidia V100 GPUs, and Nvidia Mellanox HDR InfiniBand.

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The Human Brain Project: Neurowissenschaftliche Perspektiven und Beiträge aus Deutschland

e-Neuroforum ◽

10.1515/nf-2014-0204 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Katrin Amunts ◽

Angela Lindner ◽

Karl Zilles

Keyword(s):

Human Brain ◽

Human Brain Project

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IAGOS Research Infrastructure for Global-Scale Atmosphere Monitoring by Instrumented Passenger Aircraft

10.5194/dach2022-251 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andreas Petzold ◽

Valerie Thouret ◽

Christoph Gerbig ◽

Andreas Zahn ◽

Martin Gallagher ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Air Quality ◽

Relative Humidity ◽

Water Vapour ◽

Research Infrastructure ◽

Good Resolution ◽

European Research ◽

Commercial Aircraft ◽

High Quality

IAGOS (www.iagos.org) is a European Research Infrastructure using commercial aircraft (Airbus A340, A330, and soon A350) for automatic and routine measurements of atmospheric composition including reactive gases (ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds), greenhouse gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane), aerosols and cloud particles along with essential thermodynamic parameters. The main objective of IAGOS is to provide the most complete set of high-quality essential climate variables (ECV) covering several decades for the long-term monitoring of climate and air quality. The observations are stored in the IAGOS data centre along with added-value products to facilitate the scientific interpretation of the data. IAGOS began as two European projects, MOZAIC and CARIBIC, in the early 1990s. These projects demonstrated that commercial aircraft are ideal platforms for routine atmospheric measurements. IAGOS then evolved as a European Research Infrastructure offering a mature and sustainable organization for the benefits of the scientific community and for the operational services in charge of air quality and climate change issues such as the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Services (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). IAGOS is also a contributing network of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). IAGOS provides measurements of numerous chemical compounds which are recorded simultaneously in the critical region of the upper troposphere &#8211; lower stratosphere (UTLS) and geographical regions such as Africa and the mid-Pacific which are poorly sampled by other means. The data are used by hundreds of groups worldwide performing data analysis for climatology and trend studies, model evaluation, satellite validation and the study of detailed chemical and physical processes around the tropopause. IAGOS data also play an important role in the re-assessment of the climate impact of aviation. Most important in the context of weather-related research, IAGOS and its predecessor programmes provide long-term observations of water vapour and relative humidity with respect to ice in the UTLS as well as throughout the tropospheric column during climb-out and descending phases around airports, now for more than 25 years. The high quality and very good resolution of IAGOS observations of relative humidity over ice are used to better understand the role of water vapour and of ice-supersaturated air masses in the tropopause region and to improve their representation in numerical weather and climate forecasting models. Furthermore, CAMS is using the water vapour vertical profiles in near real time for the continuous validation of the CAMS atmospheric models.

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Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems

e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik ◽

10.1007/s00502-020-00843-4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 137 (8) ◽

pp. 502-508

Author(s):

T. I. Strasser ◽

E. C. W. de Jong ◽

M. Sosnina ◽

J. E. Rodriguez-Seco ◽

P. Kotsampopoulos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Systems ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Research Infrastructure ◽

European Research ◽

Power And Energy Systems ◽

Power And Energy

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TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary 2021 : TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary and their Embeddedness in the European Research Infrastructure Landscape

10.52033/topri.2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Research Infrastructure ◽

European Research ◽

Research Cooperation ◽

Excellent Research ◽

Research Infrastructures ◽

Research Facilities

The publication showcases fifty-two excellent research infrastructures and infrastructure clusters in Hungary, furthermore it introduces five up-and-coming emerging research facilities. The purpose of the publication is, by demonstrating the services and activities of our top-of-the-line research infrastructures to potential international partners, to enhance international research-cooperation.

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Materialism or Nothing

Inference: International Review of Science ◽

10.37282/991819.15.5 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Arthur Cody

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Human Brain ◽

Brain Research ◽

Human Brain Project ◽

The Mind ◽

The Brain

Brain research is intended to produce valuable results in medicine and information technology. All to the good. Nevertheless, the contentions made by both the BRAIN Initiative and the Human Brain Project are not only unproven, but indefensible. Their most egregious error lies in a doctrinal misconception of what the mind does. The mind is a matter of memory, belief, intention, desire, will, and the like—mentalities.

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