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NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer

September 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into the future. …

HPC

NOAA Gets 3X More Oomph For Weather Forecasting; It Needs 3,300X

June 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

UPDATED*  Until exascale supercomputers get a lot cheaper, which will allow weather forecasting models to run at a much smaller resolution – and more frequently – to deliver hyper-local weather forecasts, the actual weather forecasting is still going to be done by people. …

HPC

Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles

February 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …

AI

NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change

March 5, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …

Compute

NOAA Weather Forecasts Stick With CPUs, Keep An Eye On GPUs

January 11, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When it comes to supercomputing, more is almost always better. More data and more compute – and more bandwidth to link the two – almost always result in a better set of models, whether they are descriptive or predictive. …

Compute

Bigger Iron Drives Better NOAA Weather Forecasts

January 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …

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