Marcel Kunze
Dr. Marcel Kunze
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
D-Grid
In 2003, the German science community and the Government decided to establish a German e-Science Initiative. After almost two years of preparation, the D-Grid Initiative started in September 2005. Since then, 8 projects started to build a grid middleware software stack connecting distributed resources currently in 25 universities and research centers all over Germany. Among the 8 projects, one is responsible for the grid infrastructure, while the other 7 projects are so-called community grids, in high-energy physics, astrophysics, medicine, earth sciences, engineering, energy, and arts and humanities. The presentation will briefly present architecture and applications of D-Grid, and describe the strategies to build a national e-infrastructure for e-Science and their industrial partners.
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Biography
Leading the department for "Integration and Virtualization" at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Dr. Marcel Kunze and his team work on the realization of Grid infrastructures, one of the most demanding projects being the participation to the LHC computing Grid. He is member of the international advisory committee of various conferences and he is representing the German/Swiss federation in the European project "Enabling Grids for eScience (EGEE)" in the management board.
Dr. Kunze received a Diploma degree in Physics at Karlsruhe University in 1985. In the following years he was delegated to CERN to manage the construction of the trigger system and data acquisition for PS 197. After his graduation in 1990 he went to Bochum University where he started to work in the field of neurocomputing, in close collaboration with the institute for neuroinformatics. In 1996 he received his habilitation on the use of artificial neural systems in particle physics. As an associate professor he was teaching particle physics, informatics and software design.