India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences Deploys New Cray XC40 Supercomputers and Cray Storage Systems
January 18 2018 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that as part of a $67 million contract with Cray to update its
supercomputing facilities and systems, the Ministry of Earth
Sciences in India has deployed two Cray® XC40™ supercomputers and
two Cray ClusterStor™ storage systems. The combined systems are the
largest supercomputing resource in India, and extend Cray’s
leadership position in the weather forecasting and climate research
communities.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is dedicated to providing
world-class weather, climate, ocean, and seismological services to
the citizens of India, and has significantly upgraded its
high-performance computing capabilities to better support its
operational and research activities. The two Cray systems are
located at two divisions of MoES – the Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology (IITM) in Pune, India, and the National Center for
Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in Noida, India.
The Cray supercomputer at IITM will be used for conducting
research on improving weather and climate forecasts, and the system
– named “Pratyush” which means the Sun – will also be used by other
MoES organizations for research activities to improve their
respective weather and climate services. The NCMRWF will use its
Cray supercomputer to run daily, operational weather forecasts. The
combined supercomputing systems have a peak performance of more
than six petaflops, and more than 18 petabytes of Cray ClusterStor
storage capacity.
“Our new Cray supercomputing systems provide MoES’ scientists
with the computational power needed for producing more accurate and
reliable weather forecasts at much higher resolutions,” said Dr.
Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences,
Government of India. “Our country needs better forecasts for
weather and climate events such as monsoons, tsunamis, cyclones,
and extreme heat waves and cold snaps, and so it is imperative that
we augment our HPC facilities with highly-advanced supercomputing
systems. The two new Cray systems are major steps forward for MoES,
and allows us to stand tall in the international weather and
climate communities.”
Cray continues to strengthen its leadership position in the
weather forecasting and climate research space, as an increasing
number of the world’s leading centers rely on Cray supercomputers
and storage systems to run their complex meteorological models.
More than three-quarters of the World Meteorological Organization’s
Long Range Global Modelling Centers have selected Cray
supercomputers for numerical weather prediction, and MoES is the
latest organization to deploy Cray systems for numerical weather
prediction and climate research.
“MoES has made a substantial enhancement to its high-performance
computing infrastructure, and we are honored Cray was chosen to
provide both the supercomputing and storage technologies necessary
for improving their extensive range of important weather services
for the people of India,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of
Cray. “The world’s preeminent global weather centers, like MoES,
continue to rely on Cray supercomputers to power their weather
forecasts. Our leadership position in earth sciences is
representative of our proven ability to build production-ready
supercomputing and storage systems across many data-intensive
workloads such as weather forecasting, analytics, and artificial
intelligence.”
The Cray XC series of supercomputers are designed to handle the
most challenging workloads requiring sustained multi-petaflop
performance. The Cray XC40 supercomputers incorporate the Aries
high performance network interconnect for low latency and scalable
global bandwidth, the HPC-optimized Cray Linux Environment, the
Cray programing environment consisting of powerful tools for
application developers, as well as the latest Intel® processors and
NVIDIA® GPU accelerators. The Cray XC supercomputers deliver on
Cray’s commitment to performance supercomputing with an
architecture and tightly-integrated software environment that
provides extreme scalability and sustained performance.
Consisting of products and services, the multi-year contract is
valued at more than $67 million. The systems were accepted in late
2017.
For more information on the Cray XC™ supercomputers, and Cray
storage solutions, please visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com.
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