Figure 1
Survey results from the questionnaire with a) showing numerical models used for NWP purposes, the number of countries running a numerical model at seasonal timescale and those running for multi-decadal timescale, b) the HPC system availability, c) availability of remote sensing data in the 8 countries that responded to the questionnaire.
Figure 2
Radar network of the South African Weather Service.
Table 1
Showing specification of SADC HPC Ecosystems Hardware deployments.
| Name | System | Cores per rack | RAM per rack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranger | Sun Blade 604 | 768 | 3TB (upto 64GB per node) |
| Cambridge | Dell M100e | 192 | 2TB |
| Dell Westmere | Dell C6100 | 2880 | 8.6TB |
Figure 3
A map showing countries in which HPC systems decommissioned from TACC and Cambridge were deployed.
Figure 4
Precipitation estimation of the Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations (TAMSAT Maidment et al., 2017) for the 14, 15, 16, and 17th of February 2017 over Southern Africa.