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New computing systems at CSCS for MeteoSwiss
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and Palu (a Cray XT3) as...
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Move of Dôle at CSCS to a New Location
Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for weather forecast. Previously Dôle...
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Swiss Engineering STZ Reports on Weather Forecasts on Supercomputer at CSCS
The last issue of the Swiss Engineering STZ journal reports on how metereologists use modern supercomputer for weather forecasts. One article in particular reports on the collaboration between...
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CSCS/ETH Zurich and MeteoSwiss Common Presentation in Bern
The president of ETH Zurich, Prof. Ralph Eichler invited last Wednesday, June 16 the Swiss parliamentarian to join over lunch to an introduction of ETH Zurcih activities in High Performance Computing....
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Conference Report: 14th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance...
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim...
View ArticlePanel on Experience of Using HPC in Meteorology and RAPS Forum
Some weeks ago we published a conference report from the 14th ECMWF workshop on HPC in Meteorology. At the end of the workshop ECMWF organized a panel discussing the experience of using HPC in...
View ArticleCH2011 – CSCS Supercomputers Compute Climate Scenarios for Switzerland
It is getting warmer in Switzerland and dryer in summer, and climate change will also affect the frequency and character of extreme events. Climate scientists of C2SM Competence Centre (Center for...
View ArticleColloquium at MeteoSwiss: How much HPC does meteorology need?
MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2011-2: How much high performance computing does meteorology need? 29 November 2011, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm at MeteoSwiss, Krähbühlstrasse...
View ArticleInterview at SC11 with Ulrich Schaettler of DWD
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the...
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COSMO goes hybrid: Interview with Oliver Fuhrer of MeteoSwiss
“This decision is a huge success for the HP2C projects” The COSMO model is used by the German Meteorological Service, MeteoSwiss and other institutions as a basis for their daily weather forecasts. In...
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MeteoSwiss and CSCS pave the way for more detailed weather forecasts
At the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano the new “super weather computer” of the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss has started its operation. MeteoSwiss...
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GPU accelerated weather simulation code COSMO at CSCS Booth at SC15
On Wednesday, November 18, 13:30 Peter Messmer (NVIDIA and NVIDIA Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing @ ETH Zurich) will give a presentation about Interactive weather models on GPU accelerated...
View ArticleScientific Software Developer – Open Position
The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is seeking a Scientific Software Developer. Information about the position Level of employment: 80 – 100% Place of Work: Zurich – Airport...
View ArticleJob Offer at MeteoSwiss: Scientific Software Developer
The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is the national weather service of Switzerland. We observe and forecast weather and climate in Switzerland and make a significant...
View ArticleJob Offer at MeteoSwiss: Scientific Software Engineer / Developer (100%)
ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology. It is renowned for its excellent education, its cutting-edge fundamental research and its efforts to put...
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CSCS/ETH Zurich and MeteoSwiss Common Presentation in Bern
The president of ETH Zurich, Prof. Ralph Eichler invited last Wednesday, June 16 the Swiss parliamentarian to join over lunch to an introduction of ETH Zurcih activities in High Performance Computing....
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Conference Report: 14th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance...
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim...
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