A high-precision numerical model for weather forecasting in Kazakhstan has been launched at the Farabi Supercomputer Center, located on the territory of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU). This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic.
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) project was launched by specialists from the RSE "National Hydrometeorological Service" ("Kazhydromet"). The WRF model received a high spatial resolution of 2 km.
The director of the Farabi Supercomputer Center of KazNU, Amirkhan Temirbayev, stated that the center's employees had done a great job. They configured computing nodes, optimized server configurations, and allocated resources for daily calculations.
The new system helps to better warn about dangerous natural phenomena, especially in the mountainous regions of Almaty and the southeast of the country, and also strengthens the hydrometeorological security of the country.
According to him, the supercomputer is an infrastructure of the state level. In the future, it can model floods, mudflows, and build digital models of cities, Temirbayev summarized.