NOAA to triple supercomputing capacity in bid to dramatically improve forecast accuracy. Move would bring the agency to near parity with Europeans, but important gaps remain. March 4, 2020.

The brand-new Cray supercomputer — designed, owned and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — processes 3 quadrillion calculations per second.

Rather than rebidding the hardware, NOAA worked out a new agreement with IBM to subcontract with Cray to create an integrated system that would reach the 2.5-petaflop goal, according to Michelle ...

The faster supercomputer will permit upgrades to NOAA’s weather forecasting systems and models over the next few years such as: upgrades to the U.S. Global Forecast System to make it higher-resolution ...

NOAA’s powerful new weather forecasting supercomputers are now online These supercomputers are three times faster than NOAA’s previous systems. Here’s what the agency plans to do with them.

Located in Manassas, Virginia, and Phoenix, Arizona, respectively, each supercomputer now operates at a speed of 14.5 petaflops. Faster supercomputing will allow NOAA to run more complex forecast ...

MSU and NOAA leaders held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Orion supercomputer, the fourth-fastest computer system in U.S. academia. Funded by NOAA and managed by MSU’s High Performance Computing ...

Combined, the two supercomputers will increase NOAA's weather and climate forecasting capabilities by 20%. Advertisement Brian Gross is the director of NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center.

A look at NOAA's new IBM supercomputers. NOAA. In previous generations of weather forecasting, "most meteorologists looked at a single model and based an entire forecast off that," Kyger explained.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration just announced that they have added new supercomputers named Cactus and Dogwood, which will play key roles in forecasting ...

NOAA’s Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) got its latest twin pair of HPC systems, nicknamed “Cactus” and “Dogwood,” which were installed in June 2022 and which drive the ...