Operational HPC NWP Model Suite Support

NOAA’s operational High Performance Computing (HPC) system runs the suite of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models that are supported by several 24/7 teams within the National Weather Service Central Operations (NCO). The team navigates model upgrades, data changes, system upgrades, software updates, and unexpected network/hardware failures with a common goal to ensure that the NWP output products are produced and disseminated on-time. This poster will go into more details of the day to day responsibilities of keeping the modeling suite stable and reliable so the GFS is always on-time.