Supercomputing system to give better forecasts

India’s 2014 monsoon forecast will be based on the data from a new supercomputing system set up at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology ( IITM) on Friday. The facility will help establish an Indian model for weather and climate prediction by 2017.

The Aaditya HPC is a highly parallel supercomputing system built on the IBM System X technology, Shailesh Nayak, secretary, ministry of earth sciences told reporters after the inaugural function. The compute performance of the system is more than 790 tera flops with Intel Sandy bridge processors. This is India’s most powerful HPC system.

Nayak said both the system will cost close to Rs 220 crore and there are plans to augment capacities. Funds have been planned for the project, which could come up to Rs 550 crore, he said.

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The new HPC system will help provide reliable weather and climate services to farmers, fishermen and other countries.