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NOAA Moves Weather Prediction to Google Cloud, Ditches Supercomputers
NOAA will replace its HPE Cray supercomputers with Google Cloud H4D virtual machines for weather forecasting. The shift aims to improve scalability and reduce hardware maintenance costs. The agency expects the cloud-based system to handle larger datasets and enable faster model updates.
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The move underscores a growing trend of government agencies migrating critical HPC workloads to public cloud, but raises questions about data sovereignty and vendor lock-in.
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NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud →
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