Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for weather forecast. Previously Dôle and Buin were placed next to each one. The replacement to two separate locations in the CSCS computer room will ensure [...]
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and Palu (a Cray XT3) as backup system. Palu has been decommissioned at the end of 2009 because of his high operational costs. His functionality as [...]
