Emerging Technologies and Cray Converged System Vision for High-Performance Computing in Weather, Water, and Climate

High Performance Computing for Weather, Water and Climate is facing an increase in diversity, in both workloads and computing solutions. New analytics techniques are being applied, new ways of interfacing with HPC systems have emerged (containers, Jupyter notebooks, cloud computing) and the approaching end of Moore’s law has led to a Cambrian explosion in processor architectures.

This talk will discuss the challenges in high performance computing for weather, water and climate, the strategies being used to enable applications to be agile with respect to new processor architectures and will introduce Cray’s vision for a converged data-oriented system architecture that enables workflows associated with both data analytics and simulation.