NOAA triples its supercomputing capacity for improved storm modeling
Last year, hurricanes hammered the Southern and Eastern US coasts at the cost of more than 160 lives and. Thanks to climate change, it's only going to get worse. In order to quickly and accurately predict these increasingly severe weather patterns, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that it has effectively tripled its supercomputing capacity with the addition of two high-performance computing systems built by General Dynamics.
Each HPC operates at 12.1 petaflops or,"a quadrillion calculations per second with 26 petabytes of storage," Dave Michaud, Director, National Weather Service Office of Central Processing, said during a press call Tuesday morning. That's"three times the computing capacity and double the storage capacity compared to our previous systems... These systems are amongst the fastest in the world today, currently ranked at number 49 and 50.
"The new supercomputers will also allow significant upgrades to specific modeling systems in the coming years," Gross said."This includes a new hurricane forecast model named the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System, which is slated to be in operation at the start of the 2023 hurricane season," and will replace the existing H4 hurricane weather research and forecasting model.
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