HPC for a weather information company 

Kim Serradell
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Meteomatics AG
Abstract:
Meteomatics is a Swiss company, global leader in weather intelligence. The main mission is to provide the most accurate weather data for any location at any time to improve our customers business.
Meteomatics data is delivered using the powerful weather API, combining massive amounts of data from external sources and also from the EURO1k, an in-house high-resolution European weather model for precise forecasts. In this talk, we will present the work done to deploy this
model in our on-premise high-performance cluster, the technical challenges experienced to efficiently manage an intense I/O workflow, future directions and we will compare the previous experiences of the company using a private cloud provider.
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