Numeric Weather is a complete solution for Numerical Weather Prediction system and is a combination of:
- high performance computing with
- state of the art local area numeric weather prediction (NWP) models
The complete solution includes also necessary training, customization and maintenance.
Numeric Weather – software
OS platform:
- Linux
Numerical Models:
- COSMO – non-hydrostatic, resolution up to 2.8 km by DWD/COSMO Consortium
- WRF – non-hydrostatic Weather Research & Forecasting Model by NCAR, NCEP, FSL, AFWA, FAA.
- WAMS – Wave model by GKSS
- WAVEWATCH III – Wave model by NOAA
Hardware
- Hardware scalable from off-the-shelf basic system to customized high performance cluster (HPC)
- Latest developments in hardware allow to build an affordable NWP system by using stock parts
- Brings the possibility to calculate your own simple NWP model
An entry 4-way system for testing purposes
- 4 x Intel E5 2630v4 CPU, 12 cores each
- 64 GB RAM
- 6 x 2TB SATA disks
Professional HPC cluster for example with 72 computing nodes
- 72 Twin Nodes (2 nodes in one enclosure)
- Xeon E5 2630v4 / 64GB RAM per node
- InfiniBand FDR interconnect
- Remote management and monitoring, KVM over IP
Front-end node
- Used as boot server and management of compute nodes
- same configuration as compute node
- KVM over IP
- Remote management module
Networking
- 144 port InfiniBand switch
- 144 port Gigabit Ethernet switch
- Switched rack PDU to power-cycle nodes
Storage subsystem: 1–5 storage servers
- Each server is equipped with 24 1TB disks in RAID-6 configuration
- Protects against failure of 2 disks at the same time
- 2 hot-spare drives
- Usable capacity is 20TB per server
- InfiniBand interconnect
