Evolocity Cluster System to be Used as Test Bed for Weather Computations
SALT LAKE CITY, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Linux Networx announced today that
the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has installed
an Evolocity(R) II Linux Networx cluster computing system. The system will be
used to evaluate the suitability of cluster technology for broader deployment
within ECMWF's high performance production environment.
ECMWF is responsible for acquiring, organizing and analyzing recent
meteorological observations to generate 10-day weather forecasts for the
25 European States that support ECMWF. These weather forecasts are essential
to many business activities, such as routing oil tankers and cargo ships at
sea, as well as demand planning for manufacturers and for gas and electricity
utilities. The organization supplies meteorological information to national
weather services, which issue weather warnings, present daily television
weather forecasts throughout Europe and provide specialized services to their
many government and commercial users.
The Evolocity II cluster will be used as a test bed for various aspects of
ECMWF's operational workload. Linux Networx successfully met ECMWF's
requirements for acceptance testing on June 18.
"Accurately predicting weather patterns requires massive amounts of
computing power," said Walter Zwieflhofer, head of operations for ECMWF. "The
Linux Networx cluster provides impressive performance capabilities and ECMWF
is excited about the potential of this technology."
ECMWF's Evolocity II cluster consists of 64 AMD Opteron(TM) 2.2 GHz
processors, 128 GB of memory and uses InfiniBand high-speed interconnects from
Mellanox. The cluster also includes cluster management tools from Linux
Networx, Clusterworx(R) and Icebox(TM), to provide total cluster management
from one interface.
"We are delighted by ECMWF's choice of Linux Networx as a partner to test
their operational codes in a Linux cluster environment," said Fabio Gallo,
vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations for Linux Networx.
"We are committed to serving the needs of the most demanding production-
oriented supercomputing centers, and are confident we can meet ECMWF's
requirements for reliable, effective and easy-to-manage cluster computing
systems."
About Linux Networx
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research by improving the performance and reducing the cost of high
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CONTACT:
Andrea Bingham of Linux Networx,
+1-801-649-1206, abingham@linuxnetworx.com; or Manfred Kloeppel
of ECMWF, +44 118 9 499 101, Manfred.kloeppel@ecmwf.int
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