ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting. In recent years, the demand for greater precision in weather forecasting has increased significantly. The development of HPC plays an important role in this process.
Lenovo HPC Helps Forecast Potentially Disastrous Weather Events in Saudi Arabia
April 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When people think of weather in Saudi Arabia, they probably think of dust storms before flooding. A team led by Lenovo, WeMET P.C. and the University of Connecticut worked with the Saudi National Center for Meteorology to develop and implement a weather prediction system based on High Performance Computing (HPC) that handles […]
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 […]
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 […]
HPE to Build Weather Supercomputer for Denmark, Iceland, Ireland and The Netherlands
November 10, 2021 by
Building on its UK Met Office win, one of the largest supercomputer deals of the past year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced that it is building a supercomputer for the United Weather Centres – West (UWC-West), a collaboration between the Danish Meteorological Institute, Icelandic Met Office, Met Éireann, Ireland’s national weather service, and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute to advance […]
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
Atos Boosts Supercomputing Power for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET
February 23, 2021 by
Paris and Madrid, February 23, 2021 – Atos announced it has been selected by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage technology, through the tender “Contracting of Supply through leasing without the option to purchase a Supercomputing System for the AEMET”. Based on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, […]
Atos and ECMWF Launch Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Modelling with HPC, AI and Quantum
October 5, 2020 by
London and Reading, UK; Paris, France; Bologna, Italy – October 5 2020 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), today announce a new Center of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Weather & Climate. The Center will be based at ECMWF’s headquarters in Reading, UK, where […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
June 26, 2020 by
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories talks about using exascale supercomputers for severe weather and water resource forecasting. A sub-project within the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) called E3SM-MMF is working to improve the ability to simulate the water cycle and the processes around precipitation. Our guest on the latest episode of ECP’s podcast, Let’s Talk Exascale, is Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories, principal investigator of the E3SM-MMF project.
Video: Machine Learning for Weather Forecasts
May 10, 2020 by
Peter Dueben from ECMWF gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. “I will present recent studies that use deep learning to learn the equations of motion of the atmosphere, to emulate model components of weather forecast models and to enhance usability of weather forecasts. I will than talk about the main challenges for the application of deep learning in cutting-edge weather forecasts and suggest approaches to improve usability in the future.”
