About terrabyte

What is terrabyte?

terrabyte is a cooperation between German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) to provide first class information technology for researchers comprising dedicated storage for EO data and large-scale CPU and NVIDIA GPUs computing resources for global decadal data analyses. Objective of this cooperation is the development of the operational platform terrabyte as well as joint research and development in the area of EO data processing. LRZ hosts and operates the infrastructure as well as basic services (e.g. user authentication, HPC Slurm, web-based computing portal) whereas DLR is responsible for data management, EO-specific web services, and user support.

terrabyte is an innovative High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) platform operated by the DLR and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), an institution of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The platform provides researchers with efficient access to Earth Observation data, a powerful processing environment, and practical tools for data analysis. It was set up from 2019 and put into operation in summer 2023. The high-performance computers and the data science storage (online data storage) are operated and managed by the LRZ, while the Earth observation data and the central software interfaces and analysis tools for researchers are developed and operated by DLR.

terrabyte Access

DLR users and scientists in Bavaria can access terrabyte using their LRZ account. A large part of the satellite data is pre-processed (known as Analysis Ready Data, ARD) and can be used in pre-installed applications. This enables terrabyte to perform a variety of geoscientific analyses that were previously only possible on commercial platforms due to the large amounts of data and the need for high computing power.

terrabyte Offerings

terrabyte offers the relevant satellite data sets, the necessary computing capacities and software environment for earth observation applications. Together with the LRZ, terrabyte is being continuously developed in order to offer the most comprehensive, modern, technical solutions possible and to promote the exchange of information between users.

Infrastructure

terrabyte provides different kind of infrastructures to provide scalable data analyses and processing:

• Compute Resources
  • HPC Environment
  • Cloud Environment
• Storage Resources
  • Data Science Storage
  • Cloud Storage

Services

terrabyte provides different kind of services to ease the use of the platform:

• HPC
• Compute Portal
• Identity Management
• Data Discovery & Access
• Data Processing
• Data Storage
• Data Transfer

Datasets

terrabyte offers a curated data catalog, which is available for all users with a terrabyte account. The following datasets are currently available:

• Sentinel
• Landsat
• MODIS / VIIRS
• Digital Elevation Models

Further detailed information is available at the following page: Curated Data Catalog

Support

If you have any questions, please visit our user and support forum and ask your question there in one of the pre-defined categories. The terrabyte team and other users may help you.

You can also reach out to the terrabyte team by sending an email to servicedesk@terrabyte.lrz.de.

Contact

The terrabyte project is led by Maximilian Schwinger (DLR DFD-IBS) and Jonas Eberle (DLR DFD-INF). Please find the contact details below.

Maximilian Schwinger
^{DLR DFD-IBS}
Phone: +49 8153 28 1418
Email: Maximilian.Schwinger@dlr.de

Dr. Jonas Eberle
^{DLR DFD-INF}
Phone: +49 8153 28 3495
Email: Jonas.Eberle@dlr.de