DCFP joins forces with celebrated supercomputer Gadi

Gadi, the new Australian supercomputer, based at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), has placed at 25 on the TOP500 list, a global ranking of supercomputers released on 23rd June 2020 by the ISC High Performance Digital Conference. Gadi is the most powerful supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere.

CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University are all major collaborators of NCI and are set to utilise Gadi to its fullest potential in the coming years.

“National high-performance computing facilities are critical for Australia’s future,” says Dr Dave Williams, Executive Director of CSIRO – Digital, National Facilities and Collections.

Dr Williams added “at CSIRO, we solve the greatest challenges using innovative science and technology, and Gadi will enable our work in Earth sciences including climate, land, water and fire modelling. The data that Gadi will process and analyse is collected here on Earth as well as by an increasing number of satellites orbiting our planet”.

These computational models will contribute to the DCFP work, which is already producing near-term climate forecasts with ever-increasing accuracy. Gadi will assist this project by facilitating a move to even higher model resolutions of the atmosphere and ocean, with fast data processing and increased model accuracy.