UK Met Office Chooses Cray AI Solution to Unlock Business Value From Weather Data
September 26 2018 - 8:00AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s National Weather Service,
has expanded its Cray® XC40™ supercomputer with artificial
intelligence (AI) and analytics capabilities. The Met Office added
Cray’s Urika®-XC AI and analytics software suite to its
supercomputer to unlock the highest levels of business value from
the massive volumes of weather data it processes daily.
The Met Office is using Cray’s Urika-XC suite to explore the use
of new methods, such as machine learning, in extracting insights
from observational and model data to better develop and customize
commercial products, such as tailored forecasts. The Urika-XC suite
was designed to run on Cray XC systems to eliminate the need for
organizations to install new purpose-built analytics hardware and
enable customers to run simulation and big data workloads on the
same system.
“As in many industries, we are challenged with increasing data
volumes and are turning to large-scale analytics, machine learning
and deep learning applications to drive new insights and
innovation,” said Charles Ewen, director of technology and CIO at
the Met Office. “The Met Office already has one of the world’s
largest Cray XC supercomputing systems. Now with our implementation
of Cray’s Urika-XC software, we are applying AI and analytics to
deliver ever-more accurate and detailed weather forecasts and
climate change analyses, while also developing new commercial
products.”
With the power of a Cray supercomputer, the Met Office is able
to take in 215 billion weather observations from all over the world
every day and uses an advanced atmospheric model to create tailored
forecasts and briefings that are delivered to customers including
governments, environmental agencies, the military and the general
public as well as businesses and other organizations.
“Cray and the Met Office share a long, productive and successful
relationship, and we’re pleased that one of the world’s most
prestigious weather agencies is taking the next step using Cray AI
and analytics solutions to augment their capabilities to drive new
business opportunities,” said Per Nyberg, vice president of market
development, artificial intelligence and cloud at Cray. “The Met
Office’s decision demonstrates its confidence in Cray’s innovation
and creativity in helping tackle some of the planet’s biggest
weather and climate challenges. At Cray, we believe big data
analytics, modeling and simulation are converging into new
workflows leading to powerful insights for customers.”
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