Today NEC Corporation announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) will soon deploy an NEC LX series supercomputerfor weather forecasting.

We are very happy that CHMI has selected NEC to deliver an HPC solution for their weather and climate simulations, as NEC has a very special expertise in meteorological applications. For years, we have been successfully collaborating with meteorological institutes, and we look forward to cultivating these partnerships further, said Andreas Gottlicher, Senior Sales Manager, NEC Deutschland.

NECs scale-out LX series HPC cluster will enable the Czech Hydrometeorological Service to increase the accuracy of numerical weather forecasting and related applications, namely warning systems. Weather prediction models are increasingly complex, including rainfall, temperature, wind and related variables that have to be calculated as precisely as possible several days in advance. At the same time, regional peculiarities such as orography and terrain physiography need to be considered. In addition, the public must be made aware quickly of predictions of high impact weather events affecting daily life, including environmental risks linked to air pollution. High-performance computing is therefore needed for running and completing weather and climate simulation jobs in time.

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The new system is scheduled to be put into operation in early 2018.

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