Gerry Creager wrote:
I'm running WRF on ranger, the 580 TF Sun cluster at utexas.edu. I can complete the WRF single domain run, using 384 cores in ~30 min wall clock time. At the WRF Users Conference last week, the number of folks I talked to running WRF on workstations or "operationally" on 16-64 core clusters was impressive. I suspect a lot of desktop weather forecasting will, as you suggest, become the norm. The question, then, is: Are we looking at an enterprise where everyone with a gaming machine thinks they understand the model well enough to try predicting the weather, or are some still in awe of Lorenz' hypothesis about its complexity?
This is where I think the pluses of the established meteorological society will be: We know how to establish the quality of meteorological models, how to compare them, how to dive into their parametrizations to figure out the relevant differences and to solve the problems.
Because we know this, we will be sought after. However, we will be working inside the industry that needs this knowlegde, and outside academia or institutionalized weather centres.
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