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Cray XC40 Met Office Super Computer
Meteorological Office and Cray2017
The Royal Society
London, United Kingdom
The first part of the Met Office’s latest supercomputer arrived in 2015 and was fully installed by 2017.
Now complete, this new computer (shown below) has 460,000 cores which delivers a peak performance of 16 petaflops. It has 2 petabytes of memory for running complex calculations and 24 petabytes of storage for saving data.
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Details
- Title: Cray XC40 Met Office Super Computer
- Creator: Meteorological Office, Cray
- Date Created: 2017
- Provenance: Met Office, Exeter
- Rights: @ Met Office
- External Link: Discover the collections of the National Meteorological Library and Archive
- Invention: NWP
- Field: Weather, Forecasting, Climate Change, Super Computers
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