LAHORE: To enhance forecasts and alerts for public safety and the economy, the US government’s weather forecast and climate monitoring agency debuted the nation’s newest supercomputers on Tuesday.
The new supercomputers, first announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in February 2020, significantly increase the computing capacity, storage space, and connection speed of America’s Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System.
NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad stated that “more computing power will allow NOAA to give the public with more detailed weather forecasts further in advance.”
NOAA will be able to use more realistic model physics to better capture the formation of clouds and precipitation, higher-resolution models to better capture small-scale features like severe thunderstorms, and a greater number of individual climate models to improve measurable models surety thanks to increased computing and storage capacity.
Three times faster than NOAA’s previous system, the twin Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray supercomputers Dogwood and Cactus operate at a speed of 12.1 petaflops.
