HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award

Every year, HPCwire conducts our annual Editors’ Choice Awards to recognize the best and the brightest developments that happened in HPC over the last 12 months. These awards are for the best use of HPC in Physical Sciences. The FastEddy® team of Jeremy Sauer and Domingo Muñoz-Esparza won the 2022 HPCwire Editor's Choice Award for best use of HPC in Physical Science.

Editors’ Choice Awards
NCAR has developed a GPU-based model, FastEddy®, that can run weather forecasts at a resolution of just 5 meters (16 feet). FastEddy is a new resident-GPU microscale large-eddy simulation (LES) model coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Trained primarily on NCAR’s Casper system, housing 64 Nvidia V100 GPUs, FastEddy has the capability to provide real-time weather hazard avoidance at the microscale level. FastEddy allows scientists to predict how weather and buildings in an urban environment affect drones and other small aerial vehicles. There are additional development efforts that aim to scale execution across up to 12,288 Nvidia V100 GPUs of the DOE’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit architecture.