The High Power Computing System (HPCS) facility of 7.2 TFlops for Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, has been commissioned in December, 2009 for basically modeling of weather processes.
This was later upgraded to 70 TFlops in order to meet requirements of modeling of climate. The upgraded system is under testing and full commissioning is to be completed by the end of March, 2011. Moreover, the commissioning of HPCS at IITM, Pune has provided opportunity to carry out extensive experiments through coupled ocean-atmospheric models for dynamical monsoon rainfall prediction at seasonal scales, which is expected to improve Weather & Monsoon Forecasting. Presently, seasonal scale monsoon rainfall predictions have been carried out using statistical models.
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Ashwani Kumar in a written reply to a question by Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao in Rajya Sabha today.
