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Environment Canada upgrading to a 1 Petaflop Cray Supercomputer
AFTER MONTHS OF PREPARATION, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE CANADA, IN COLLABORATION WITH SHARED SERVICES CANADA, WILL BE SWITCHING TO A NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AS OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2017, BEGINNING WITH THE 12 UTC MODEL RUNS. THE CURRENT IBM P7 SUPER-COMPUTER WILL BE REPLACED BY A HYBRID IBM-CRAY SOLUTION, IN WHICH THE MAIN COMPUTING CORE WILL CONSIST OF CRAY XC-40 MACHINES AND THE SURROUNDING PRE- AND POST-PROCESSING AND NETWORKING WILL BE PROVIDED BY IBM EQUIPMENT. IN TERMS OF COMPUTING CAPACITY, WE WILL REACH THE IMPORTANT PETAFLOP SCALE (ONE MILLION GIGAFLOPS), WHICH WILL PUT US ON PAR WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL WEATHER CENTRES. THIS UPGRADE WILL PUT US IN A STRONG POSITION FOR THE NEXT SERIES OF NUMERICAL PREDICTION TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFERS FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO OPERATIONS WHICH ARE PLANNED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE CONTINUALLY IMPROVED WEATHER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION SERVICES TO CANADIANS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND OTHER USERS AND PARTNERS. ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT EXPECT ANY MAJOR ISSUES, IF USERS NOTICE ANY MISSING PRODUCTS AS OF AUGUST 15, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT US TO ENSURE THE PROPER DISSEMINATION OF SERVICES. FOR SPECIFIC QUESTIONS CONCERNING THIS IMPLEMENTATION, PLEASE WRITE TO (IN LOWER CASE): EC.PRODUCTION-INFO.EC(AT)CANADA.CA This post has been edited by NortheastWind: Aug 10 2017, 01:40 PM |
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