NOAA RDHPCS Systems
The NOAA Research and Development High Performance Computing Systems (RDHPCS) are a set of high performance computing systems that support NOAA’s research and development activities. These systems are used for a wide range of applications, including weather forecasting, earth-system modeling, and data analysis.
The RDHPCS systems are managed by the NOAA Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, and are located at various sites across the United States. The systems are designed to provide high-performance computing capabilities to NOAA researchers and developers, enabling them to conduct complex simulations and analyses that are critical to NOAA’s mission.
The current systems are listed below, with links to their user guides.
System |
Purpose |
User Guide |
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Platforms to create and use HPC computational clusters on an ad-hoc basis |
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Short- and long-term prediction modeling and research system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Predicting high-impact weather events |
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Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) |
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Mercury |
Collaborative resource for data transfer |
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Long-term prediction research, archive, post-processing, and analysis. |
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Ursa |
Predicting high-impact weather events |
Access to these systems is managed through the RDHPCS accounts and projects process.
The RDHPCS has a collaboration with Mississippi State University (MSU) through the MSU High-Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2).
System |
User Guide |
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MSU-HPC Orion and Hercules |
NOAA HPC portfolio managers (PfM) and project principal investigators (PI) should follow the Requesting access to MSU-HPC systems to request project user accounts on the MSU HPC2 systems.
Maintenance and Events Calendar
The RDHPCS-sponsored events, which include system maintenance and downtimes are available in the RDHPCS Calendar We suggest users add this to their own Google calendar to keep up to date with important events.