ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s supercomputing capability, and in doing so helps contribute to that effort. The Australian Government’s Bureau of Meteorology has had the responsibility of providing trusted, reliable, and responsive meteorological services for Australia – all day, every day – since 1908. The Bureau is an Australian Government funded organisation. The high performance computing (HPC) system needs to support the Bureau’s mission with many aspects of the system being highly available and resilient to meet the critical forecast service requirements. The Bureau runs an extensive suite of models, across multiple domains, and across multiple spatial scales and forecast lead times. The Bureau designates its HPC cluster members as Australis East/West with the system running an option for a Staging and Production function. Developed by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts the Supervisor Monitor Scheduler has been the backbone of the HPC’s delivery platforms for two decades.
