<div dir="ltr">Thinking about the applications to be run at a community college, the concept of a local weather forecast has been running around in my head lately.<div>The concept would be to install and run WRF, perhaps overnight, and produce a weather forecast in the morning.</div><div>I suppose this hinges on WRF having a sufficiently small scale for local forecasting and on being able to download </div><div>input data every day.</div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts please?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 03:43, Douglas Eadline <<a href="mailto:deadline@eadline.org">deadline@eadline.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
That is the idea behind the Limulus systems -- a personal (or group) small<br>
turn-key cluster that can deliver local HPC performance.<br>
Users can learn HPC software, administration, and run production<br>
codes on performance hardware.<br>
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I have been calling these "No Data Center Needed"<br>
computing systems (or as is now the trend "Edge" computing).<br>
These systems have a different power/noise/heat envelope<br>
than a small pile of data center servers (i.e. you can use<br>
them next to your desk, in a lab or classroom, at home etc.)<br>
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Performance is optimized to fit in an ambient power/noise/heat<br>
envelope. Basement Supercomputing recently started shipping<br>
updated systems with uATX blades and 65W Ryzen processors<br>
(with ECC), more details are on the data sheet (web page not<br>
updated to new systems just yet)<br>
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<a href="https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf</a><br>
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Full disclosure, I work with Basement Supercomputing.<br>
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> Is there a role for a modest HPC cluster at the community college?<br>
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