Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet
It remains to be seen whether NOAA's collaboration with Microsoft will spur greater investment in cloud resources. In either case, the agency's reliance on supercomputers isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
For one, it's no secret that cloud resources are far more expensive than deploying hardware on-prem. Second, the NOAA juston two shiny new supercomputers this summer that it says are 3x more powerful than their predecessors, enabling longer, more detailed forecasts. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, and Manassas, Virginia, respectively, the Cactus and Dogwood supercomputers were developed by General Dynamics in collaboration with HPE at a cost of more than $150 million. According to NOAA, the redundant systems support larger, higher resolution models than previously possible.
This"will allow us to better capture the physical processes that are going on in the Earth's systems, like formation of clouds, the formation of precipitation, and so forth," Brian Gross, director of the Environmental Modeling Center for the National Weather Service, toldMicrosoft's UK climate collab
With that said, there is precedent for migrating meteorological and climate models to the cloud. Early last year, the UK's Meteorological Office Under the deal, for which the UK government would£1.2 billion, Microsoft deployed HPE's Cray EX supercomputers alongside its own compute and data services in four quadrants across the south of the UK. Meanwhile, Azure's data archive systems provided the storage for more than four exabytes of data used by MET's models.
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