Jay Clemens
Denmark’s Meteorological Institute has moved to run its climate and weather models on Cray’s supercomputers and storage system under a $6 million contract.
Cray said Tuesday that DMI will install the Cray XC supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage system at the Icelandic Meteorological Office datacenter in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The company is on schedule to deliver the systems in 2015 and 2017.
“The world’s premier meteorological centers continue to rely on Cray supercomputers to power their weather forecasts, and we are proud that leading institutions such as DMI and IMO continue to put their trust in Cray,†said Catalin Morosanu, Cray’s vice president of sales for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
DMI will use the Cray XC supercomputer generate numerical weather predictions.
