Expansion of HPC systems at the German Weather Service

MEGWARE expanded the high performance computer from the German Weather Service in Offenbach and installed two new Linux cluster, each with 260 Intel Xeon processors and a total capacity of 10.4 teraflops/s. Both HPC systems are used as front-end processors for the installed Cray XC30. They process meteorological data and provide model calculations in form of maps and meteograms.