The Atos subsidiary Eviden has received a $100 million contract from the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) to deliver two supercomputers to India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH2000, will have a combined power capacity of up to 21.3 Petaflops and will rely on Eviden’s patented Direct Liquid Cooling technology to cool the system using warm water. Located in Noida, the NCMRWF supercomputer will have an 8.3-Petaflop computing capacity for weather and climate modeling, to support advanced numerical weather research across India.
Dr. M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, said “Weather and climate research requires massive computing power. This partnership with Atos Group will augment our current capacity to increase resolutions and accuracy of weather forecasts. We look forward to Atos Group in helping us achieve this goal.”
The system will benefit from the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform with In-Network Computing, 3PB all flash, and 29PB disk-based DDN EXAScaler ES400NVX2 storage and Micron high-technology memory. The data centers on both sites will also be upgraded as part of the contract.