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Bureau of Meteorology high-performance computing (HPC) facility

Responsible agency: Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology has a custom HPC facility designed for weather prediction and climate research. The facility uses powerful supercomputers such as Cray XC40 (Australis) and Cray XC50 (Australis II), which provide significant computational power. It is suited to bespoke, batch workloads requiring massively parallel computational capacity.

The facility enables increased data sharing and collaboration with other government agencies, enhancing research capacity and supporting interoperability and operational efficiency during peak times.

The facility has a disaster recovery system in place that ensures resilience and security of digital services. It is highly efficient, due to high computational power through technologies such as HPC.

Capabilities

This design is part of the following capability.
CAP70

High Performance Computing

Policies

This design can be relevant to meeting the requirements of the following policies.
POL46

High Performance Computing policy

Standards

This design can be useful in achieving the intent of the following standard(s).
High Performance Computing (HPC), as a category of computing, is becoming strategically important to Australia’s future as workloads such as AI Large Language Model training, earth observation, weather and climate modelling, and other massively parallel processing workloads with very large datasets…
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