World-class technicians stand ready to help with technical issues as they arise – keeping MMD confident as they apply HPC solutions to get ahead of a stormy future. Lenovo provides end-to-end services to organizations like MMD that use meteorological data for public safety. MMD can use this information to warn the public of extreme weather, while public agencies use their data to plan everything from irrigation to disaster responses. Using a Lenovo High Performance Computing (HPC) system with liquid cooling technology, MMD tripled forecast resolution and extended its forecast range from three to seven days at an improved resolution of 1-kilometer. To accomplish these goals, they needed a 27-fold increase in computing power. They wanted to extend their forecast range and up the resolution of their models. Three standout organizations are using Lenovo solutions to push the forecasting frontier: the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD), Zhejiang Meteorological Service, and the Climate Change and Hydrological Extremes Project (ClimEx).īefore Lenovo stepped in, MMD – Malaysia’s national weather service-delivered three-day weather forecasts at 3-kilometer resolution. Then IT and data experts, climate scientists, and urban planners need to work together to store, process, analyze and see patterns in the data to anticipate major climate events hundreds or even thousands of days before they strike. Predicting extreme weather requires capturing massive amounts of data in real-time through IoT systems. Over the history of climate/weather forecasting, the limits of computing power put a ceiling on how accurate predictions could be. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that by 2050 Source, extreme sea-level events like storm surges that happen once a century will instead strike once a year.Īs extreme events like tropical cyclones get more frequent and intense, early warning systems will save countless lives. Every year, the lives of 46 million people are threatened by flooding Source from storm surges.

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