High Performance Computing at

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center

The Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) produces numerical weather prediction (NWP) products to meet the unique needs of the Navy and Marine Corps.  Mesoscale NWP models, with horizontal spatial resolutions of less than 10 km, are a key part of this support and the principal consumers of High Performance Computing (HPC) resources at FNMOC.  With the resolutions of these models being driven ever finer by military requirements and scientific advances, they demand HPC performance on the order of many TFLOPS peak computational rate and TB per day of data throughput. To address these challenges, FNMOC has fielded a powerful production environment involving a combination of SGI/TRIX and IBM/AIX HPC platforms for number crunching, and an IBM/Linux solution for pre-processing, post-processing and data distribution.  FNMOC is aggressively exploring opportunities afforded by remote operations and grid computing to meet its burgeoning demand for HPC resources.