Weather and Climate Modeling

RIKEN is building GPU supercomputers to support climate modeling research alongside other scientific workloads.

Business impact

• GPUs in AI system — The AI system is described as using 1,600 GPUs.

Data requirements

• Scientific workload data (tabular) — The systems are used for climate modeling and other scientific computing workloads.

AI methods and techniques

• GPU acceleration — The supercomputers use GPU hardware to speed up scientific workloads, including climate modeling.
• Floating-point emulation — This software is being developed to better support traditional scientific workloads on the GPUs.

Industries

Real-world evidence

1 documented case study on record.

Companies using this: RIKEN.