Who are Crays significant customers in the earth sciences?
Nyberg: This is a key application area that spans nearly the entire spectrum of our customer base, ranging from those whose core business is earth system modelling to multi-disciplinary HPC centres. In recent years Cray has sold large systems to national meteorological and hydrological services in countries such as Switzerland, Spain, India and South Korea. Our two most recent installations are Cray XT5 systems at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office. As an example, MeteoSwiss uses a Cray XT4 located at the Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing (CSCS) for their operational requirements. With this capability, MeteoSwiss has been able to implement one of the highest resolution regional models in Europe, a key requirement for accurate forecasts in their challenging mountainous terrain. Nearly every large scientific HPC site in government and academia uses some of their computing resources for earth system modelling. Examples of these include th
