BoM’s new supercomputer comes online as IT overhaul ends


Australia’s new supercomputer for weather forecasting has gone live, with the Bureau of Meteorology bringing the system into service after experiencing delays related to its seven-year IT overhaul.

Australis II came online in time for the start of August, ending years of uncertainty over the project that began in 2019 to ensure the bureau could continue to meet the future demands of next-generation weather predication models.

It arrives just weeks after the agency also completed its ROBUST program, a near-complete rebuild of its IT systems and observing networks that has been underway for the last seven years.

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