Facilities

The computation facilities for weather and climate research group (Environmental modelling laboratory) at Department of Environmental Science, Central University of South Bihar, offers some of the state of the art computational infrastructure. At present researchers are working on modern computation clusters, high performance numerical weather prediction models, climate models and latest GIS softwares .

The facilities offered includes

IBM-AIX (UNIX) server (POWER 710)
FUJITSU PRIMERGY CLUSTER (LINUX BASED)
HP ML350 (Intel Xeon) data server (LINUX BASED)
UK Met Office PRECIS Model
ArcGIS
WRF-ARW
RegCM

Facilities also includes multiple High Performance Intel CPU powered desktops for window based softwares.

Softwares and data under exclusive licenses

1.PRECIS model

Under the licence agreement with the Met Office and Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Government of United Kingdom) for PRÉCIS software. The WCRG is running the model in the campus since 2010 for assesment of regional climate.

2.Lightning Location Network

Under the collaboration with Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India) and IITM , Pune, we are hosting a monitoring station for lightning events. The collected data by the sensor will be used for joint research on thunderstorm; lightning and rainfall study by the M.Sc. /Ph.D. students.

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Dell Precision T3500

Powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux , the workstation is used for High Resolution Numerical Simulation using PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies ) model. Currently we have full set of CMIP3 and CMIP5 data to run PRECIS under the collaboration of UK Met Office. From meteorological data to aerosol dynamics the model is being used extensively to find out the impacts on a regional scale.

IBM

Power 710

UNIX server for extremely sophisticated research problems. This server with proprietary UNIX operating system AIX 7 provides a true scientific level precision to the research simulations. Using all licensed compilers like XLF, XLC the server environment ensures a high precision execution of the task. Having 128GB RAM and POWER architecture this robust machine is capable of running all high resolution numerical simulations.

HPE Proliant ML350

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Server acts primarily as data server. With 24x7 remotely accessible 8TB storage solution to lab researchers, it empowers the group in big data handling. Currently the server is handling around 12TB of mirrored data, having potential to be expanded more than 90 Terrabytes surely this is state of the art facility. Moreover, due to its 48GB RAM and high performance Intel Xeon ES2623 (16 thread) processor, the server also handles basic simulations of Advanced Research WRF model and RegCM model with ease.

Fujitsu Primergy Cluster

The multi-user HPC cluster with openHPC environment is capable of solving any computationally expensive problems. Accessible from anywhere within the campus (for authorized users), the server is an ultimate solution for all research computing needs. Presently it houses 144 (16+(32 x 4) )cores of Intel Xeon CPU for easily handle the parallel computing loads.

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