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The growing computational capabilities of nowadays supercomputers have made highly resolved turbulence simulations possible. The large data-sets and tremendous amount of required compute resources create serious new challenges when attempting to share the data between different research groups. But even more difficult to solve is the incompatibility of the data formats and numerical approaches used for turbulence simulations, which in detail are often only known to the simulation code developer. In this paper a framework for sharing data of large scale simulations is presented, which simplifies the access and further post-processing even beyond a single supercomputing center. It combines established services to provide an easy to manage-and-extend software setup without the need to standardize a database or -format. Beside other advantages, it enables the use of direct file outputs from simulation runs which are often archived anyway.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time granted by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) and provided on the supercomputer JURECA at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in the context of the Scientific Big Data Analytics (SBDA) project No. 006.
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Tweddell, B., Göbbert, J.H., Gauding, M., Weyers, B., Hagemeier, B. (2017). Framework for Sharing of Highly Resolved Turbulence Simulation Data. In: Di Napoli, E., Hermanns, MA., Iliev, H., Lintermann, A., Peyser, A. (eds) High-Performance Scientific Computing. JHPCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53862-4_19
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