April 12, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is launching a supercomputer dedicated to climate science research. The system is the fifth supercomputer to be installed and run by the National Climate-Computing Research Center at ORNL. The NCRC was established in 2009 as part of a […]
NOAA, ORNL Launch 10 PFLOPS HPE Cray HPC System for Climate Research
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Azure, AMD and the Power of Cloud-based HPC for Sustainability R&D Projects
March 3, 2023 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Sustainability – both in the way it operates and in its support for the development of sustainable technologies and products – is a theme that permeates the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and its end-user community. Azure, in combination with advanced and ultra-efficient CPUs from AMD and other HPC-class technologies, is a hothouse for sustainability R&D projects ranging from electric vehicles to wind turbine design. Before we look in detail at an example of those projects, let’s start with Azure’s operational efficiencies….
DOE Office of Science: $200M for Energy Earthshot Research Centers
January 19, 2023 by
Jan. 19, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $200 million for Energy Earthshot Research Centers (EERCs). This funding, provided by the Office of Science, will support fundamental research to accelerate breakthroughs in support of the Energy Earthshots Initiative. Applications are open to the DOE national laboratories. Partnerships with other institutions, including academia, other […]
Atos Wins £24M Settlement over UK Met Office Weather Supercomputer Contract
January 9, 2023 by
The Financial Times reported today that the government of the UK has paid a £24 million settlement to Atos over an £850 million contract awarded to Microsoft for a weather supercomputer to be used by the UK’s Met Office. “The French company, which was the only other shortlisted bidder, filed a lawsuit in May last […]
ACM Accepting Nominations for New Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling
November 18, 2022 by
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – To highlight and encourage more research focused on modelling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has established the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling . The new award aims to recognize innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. Climate scientists and […]
HPE Weather HPC System Stood up at Meteorological Service Singapore
October 27, 2022 by
HPE continued its strong showing in the HPC weather sector with the announcement it has built a 401.4 teraFLOPS supercomputer for the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) to advance forecasting and tropical climate research for Singapore and the broader Southeast Asia region. The system delivers nearly twice the performance and advanced capabilities across compute, storage, software […]
Los Alamos, PNNL, Univ. of New Mexico Researchers to Lead $70M DOE HPC Climate Model Projects
August 30, 2022 by
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding for seven projects intended to improve climate prediction and aid in the fight against climate change. The research will be used to accelerate development of DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), enabling scientific discovery through collaborations between climate scientists, computer scientists and […]
DOE: $84M Funding Opportunity for Urban Climate Research
March 25, 2022 by
March 25, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $84 million for new observational, modeling, and simulation studies to improve the accuracy of community-scale climate research and inform equitable climate solutions to minimize adverse impacts caused by climate change. Research will focus on three tightly related scientific topics—atmospheric and environmental […]
DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research
November 2, 2021 by
Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, for profit organizations, and other federal agencies within the area of Earth and environmental systems modeling research. Grants will focus on two related areas of research: further development of DOE’s flagship […]
Why HPE Cray EX Is the Supercomputer of Choice at Leading Weather Centers
September 23, 2021 by
[SPONSORED POST] For decades, compute resources used for weather forecasting have tracked with advances in state-of-the-art supercomputing. Which is to say that the weather segment demands systems with the greatest data ingest and storage capacity combined with the most powerful processing capabilities. As the accuracy of daily weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather depend on high-performance computing combined, increasingly, with artificial intelligence, it is perhaps not surprising that weather segment IT spending has not been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hyperion Research predicts that it will in fact grow by an astonishing 33 percent between 2021–20241, significantly outpacing
