India Installs Supercomputers for Weather Forecasting

According to Dr. Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, the new systems will be used to produce weather and climate models at much higher resolutions, allowing them to generate more accurate and more reliable forecasts. “Our country needs better forecasts for weather and climate events such as monsoons, tsunamis, cyclones, and extreme heat waves and cold snaps, and so it is imperative that we augment our High Performance Computing facilities with highly-advanced supercomputing systems,” said Rajeevan. He added, “We are aware that there is a need to also have more effective models, larger data at different levels and well qualified manpower to make use of the increasing computing capacity. We are working on them in parallel. The benefits of the supercomputer will keep growing over time.”