A Significant Milestone Has Taken Place as the Met Office’s Orthhetical Weather and Climate Intelligence Has Transferred to A New SuperCURPUTER OPERATED by Microsoft.
As detail on Microsoft’s BlogThis is the Next Step on the Met Office’s Technology Innovation Journey.
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Even Though the Met Office, The UK’s National Weather Service, Had Been Preparing to Replace Its Latest SuperCcomp motivate for sedition YEARS, It Still Felt Like A Momentous Ocouch.
A group of About Two Dozen Computer Operators, Administrators and a Couple of Photographies Gathered in a Vast Hall.
With a tap on a keyboard, The Processing of Over 50 Billion Weather Observations – Gathered Daily for Forecasting – CAM to An Abrupt Halt, AcoCOCOCANIEIIIIIIII BY SCATERD AppLAUSE.
Meanwhile, a new supercompter in the Azure Cloud that haad been running in parallel offsite for more than a month officially tok over.
With The Transition Smoothly Completed, The Met Office is now on Take Advantage of a New, Cloud-Based System That Aims to Both Help People with Beetter Forecasts and Help Scientists Advance Important Climate Research Around the World.
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Met Office Forecasts are used in aviation, Defense, Critical Infrastructure, and SHIPING, as well as for predicting Storms, Floods, and Gaugge if Sunday will be suitable for a barbecue. The decision to entry that Critical Work to Outside Institution Like Microsoft Came Only after a long process, informed by its Own Expertise in Technology.
Founded in 1854, The Met Office Has A Long History of Scientific Trailblazing. It is operated it First SuperCCOMPUTER 60 years ago.
“I think this is our 14th Generation of SuperCCCOLPER,” said Penny Endersby, The Chief Executive Office of the Met Office, of the New SuperCOCERPEN in Azure. The Met Office Has Almost Always Run Its Own SuperCOMPUTERS on Site Before Now.
“What’s different about this one, and particularly the Whole Journey with Microsoft, is that we have dieded this is now a job for speecages, and the Core Business of the Met Office Is Helping You Make Better Decisions, To Stay Safe and to Thrive Through Providing Fantastic Forecasts. ”
SuperCcomputing for ‘Science As a Service’
Charles Ewen is the Met Office’s Chief Information Office, Charmed with Keeping the Organisation’s Technology at the Cutting Edge, and He has overresseen The Project to Shift Computing To the Cloud.
“We us a technique to predict The Future State of the Atmosphere Called Numerical Weather PREDICTION,” He said. “So that Takes the Laws of Physics that are factly well at agers Expective.
Met Office Chief Information Office Charles Ewen. Image Coursy of Chris Welsch and Microsoft.
The New Supercompter is giving the Met Office A Variety of Advantages, Ewen Said. One of the Most Visible One Will Be Better Forecasts Over Longer Time Periods.
“People Ask How A Bigger Computer Improving the Weather Forecast,” He said. “One Big Thing This New Computer Will Allow Us to Do in the Near Future is to be Able to Produce 14-Day Forecasts with a Similar Kind of Accoracy Than We Can Today For Seven, Eight, Nine Days. ”
Beyond that, heyd the meteologists and researsers at the met office are always hungry for more computing power – to run more complex Weather models, to gather and Analyse Ever More Data, He said.
He described What Microsoft is Providing as “SuperCcomputing for Science As a Service.”
“Essentially there’s more.
Charles Said that One of the Advantages of Working in Azure is that Expanding Capacites for Specific Research Projects Can Be Done on A Case -By-Case Basis-Met Office Can Take On New Projects with Having to Build New Infrastructure.
And with the Revolution in Artificial Intelligence, The Met Office Has A Partner that can empore the agency to adaptt its approach steap-by-ctep.
“We don’t Know Yet How Our Cpu-Based SuperCCURPER SERVICes Will Be Augmented With Machine Learning,” He SAID. ”
With Microsoft, He SAID, “We’ve Got The Flexibility to Make Those Choices and Make Sure We’re Well Equipd with the Right Tools for the Right Jobs at the Right Times.”
Charles SAID that The Met Office is Investing in the Future of Ai and Machine Learning with Training Programs and the Funding of Advanced Degrees for Some of Its Researchers.
“We’re already in the Game, Preparing Our People,” hea. “We’ve put more than 100 people think a foundational Machine-Learning Program, Plus We Have Put Art 20 people Through Field, Like Atmosphere Physics. ”
Giveing Researchrs Speed and Capacity
Simon Vosper is the Science Director of the Met Office. In Addition to Its Role in Forecasting the Weather, it is a Globally Leading Center for Climate Research; The New Supercompter in Azure Gives The Met Office More Power and More Tools, SAID SIMON.
“We Have HUGE Increases in Capacity, Who will enable us to take our screen forward,” He said. “With the New Azure-Based Capability, We’ll Be Enhancing Resolution, Running Man More Models and Introuding New Scientific Complexity.”
Met Office Director of Science Simon Vosper. Image Coursy of Chris Welsch and Microsoft.
Ségolène Berhou Leads A Team of Researchers Working on the Agency’s Environmental Predgestion Capabelsies.
Her Specialty is the Interaction Between the Ocean and the Atmosphere and how it at team the climaate and weather.
“The Coupled System We’re Preparing Is Running Faster and More Smoothly on the New Supercompter,” shea said. “This is very good news beccause it means we can now be even more confature in our clima after
Met Office Scientific Manager Ségallène Berthou Image Coursy of Chris Welsch and Microsoft.
Ségolène said that the new capabelsies mean that the met office can us it is predicive models to forecast extreme weather events with more account. One Such Approach Is “ENSIMBLES,“ Who Means Resears Run a Model Several Times with Slightly Difference Conditions or Parameters.
“That will Give Us Quit A Large Variety of Forecasts Becuse of the Chaws Nature of the Atmosphere, and that can help us capture the exertes with more days in Advance,” she said.
Opening New Horizons
Penny Endersby, The Met Office CEO, Said The Successful Move ono the New Platform for SuperCcomputing is just the Start of Many New Possibelsies.
She Explained, for Example, that the Met Office’s Troves of Prevring Research and Weather Data Have Been Moven Into the Azure Cloud – Making it Accessible in Ways It Never Has Been Before.
Met Office Chief Executive Officer Penny Endersby. Image Coursy of Met Office.
“One of the Reasons Microsoft is Such An Excing Partner for Us is that we feel that there is much more value that can be exracted from our data by other people as well as by us,” she said.
That includes using the data for research and for traraining Large Language models.
Endsby said there is won Much Time to Pause to Reflect on the Transition Moment BecUSE ThERE ‘S Alays More Work to Do With The Weather.
“A Big Change Like this is like changing Old Supercompter. ”
So, success at this phase is that nobody can tell the difference, ”Penny said. “But that is always obvisionly where we want to stop best succase with the program is delivering beetter, more valuable foressts to the Industries, Goovernments, and Citizens that We SERVE. ”
