NEC Supplies LX Supercomputer to Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
2017年6月15日 - 11:17AM
JCN Newswire (英)
NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) today announced that the Czech
Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) in the Czech Republic selected
NEC Deutschland GmbH to provide the next generation supercomputer
system utilizing NEC's scale-out LX series compute servers for
their weather forecasts.
NEC's scale-out LX series HPC cluster will enable the Czech
Hydrometeorological Service to increase the accuracy of numerical
weather forecasting and related applications, namely warning
systems. Weather prediction models are increasingly complex,
including rainfall, temperature, wind and related variables that
have to be calculated as precisely as possible several days in
advance. At the same time, regional peculiarities such as orography
and terrain physiography need to be considered. In addition, the
public must be made aware quickly of predictions of high impact
weather events affecting daily life, including environmental risks
linked to air pollution. High-performance computing (HPC) is
therefore needed for running and completing weather and climate
simulation jobs in time.
NEC will deliver the computational power of more than 300 nodes,
connected through a high-speed Mellanox EDR InfiniBand network and
containing the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 product family dual socket
compute nodes, with a total of over 3,500 computational cores.
The Supercomputer is configured for high availability, including
redundant storage and power supplies, as operation is required
24x7.
Moreover, the computational peak performance of this HPC cluster
will be more than 80 times faster than the currently used
system.
This HPC solution also consists of a high-performance storage
solution based on the NEC LXFS-z parallel file-system appliance,
with more than 1 Petabyte of storage capacity and a bandwidth
performance of more than 30 Gigabytes per second (GB/s), which are
required to meet the production needs of the CHMI. This scalable
ZFS-based Lustre solution also provides advanced data integrity
features paired with a high density and high reliability
design.
The new system is scheduled to be put into operation in early
2018.
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Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
"Reliable HPC technology by NEC shall be important both for
forecast production and innovation; after Meteo-France, CHMI is the
second largest contributor to the development of the ALADIN
Numerical Weather Prediction System, currently used by 26
countries. Moreover, in this project, we have a specific goal to
improve air quality trend forecasts in relation to meteorological
conditions and the performance of air quality warning systems,"
said Dr. Radmila Brozkova, head of the Numerical Weather Prediction
Department, CHMI.
"We are very happy that CHMI has selected NEC to deliver an HPC
solution for their weather and climate simulations, as NEC has a
very special expertise in meteorological applications. For years,
we have been successfully collaborating with meteorological
institutes, and we look forward to cultivating these partnerships
further," said Andreas Gottlicher, Senior Sales Manager, NEC
Deutschland.
NEC has a long-term track record in climate research and weather
forecasting and holds a leading position in the supercomputer
market.
About the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute is the Czech Republic's
central government institution for the fields of air quality,
hydrology, water quality, climatology and meteorology, performing
this function as an objective specialised service. It was
established in 1919 as National Meteorological Institute. The
present-day organization of the Institute covers hydrology and air
quality as well. The Institute is run under the authority of the
Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic and its main task
is to establish and operate national monitoring and observation
networks, create and maintain data bases of data on the condition
and quality of the air and on sources of air pollution, on the
condition and development of the atmosphere, and on the quantity
and quality of water, and provide both climate and operating
information about the condition of the atmosphere and hydrosphere,
and forecasts and warnings alerting to dangerous
hydrometeorological phenomena.
About NEC Corporation
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utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's
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