  Scientific applications produce a huge amount of data, which imposes serious
management and analysis challenges. In particular, limitations in current
database management systems prevent their adoption in simulation applications,
in which in-situ analysis libraries, in-transit I/O interfaces and scientific
format files are preferred over DBMSs. In order to make simulation applications
benefit from DBMS support, the author proposes the development of a system
called SAVIME in the context of his PhD thesis. SAVIME is an array database
system designed to manage numerical simulation data. In this document, the
author presents all work conducted so far and the current state of development.
