Earth Sciences

Delivering Superior Solutions for the Earth Sciences Community

The Earth Sciences community has traditionally played a key role in defining the requirements of high performance computing platforms and peripherals, and will continue to do so for years to come. The diversity of applications and processing of large data volumes as well as the requirements for increasing levels of throughput, system robustness and faster turn-around time create an environment which pushes the limits of high performance computing. Cray is actively engaged with leaders in the Earth Sciences field, advancing HPC capabilities for this scientific community.

Cray Inc.'s unique solutions are designed specifically to meet the earth sciences community's demands for high performance and reliability. Cray supercomputers are purpose-built for HPC applications, delivering high performance, balanced capability computing since Cray supercomputers were first introduced. Only systems designed for HPC capability allow scientists and forecasters to produce results in the shortest amount of time possible while investigating increasingly complex phenomena. Once strictly the domain of large national weather centers, the need to investigate this complex phenomena extends to an ever-growing user community. Cray’s family of supercomputers offers balanced computing solutions for the entire community, from the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer to the Cray XE massively parallel supercomputer.

Predicting Alaska's Weather - Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Predicting Seismic Events - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Cray CX1 Featured in NASA Climate in a Box Project

The NASA Climate in a Box Project is exploring the utility of "desktop" supercomputers in providing a complete, pre-packaged, ready-to-use toolkit of climate research products and on-demand access to an HPC system.

Climate in a Box to Support NASA Earth System Science
Climate in a Box: System Overview
A Portable Regional Weather and Climate Downscaling System Using GEOS-5, LIS-6, WRF, and the NASA Workflow Tool
NASA’s Climate in a Box: Desktop Supercomputing for Open Scientific Model Development

Climate in a Box Video