Lloyd's has made a significant contribution to help bring the Centre for Earth Systems Intelligence (CESI) into existence and catalyse research capability into climate change through modelling on the flagship IBM Blue Gene supercomputer system, located at the Hartree centre .
The partners in this programme are:
1. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC);
2. NCAS University of Reading;
3. Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory;
4. IBM Deep Computing.
Projects aimed at providing high performance through codes, running on massively parallel systems, will provide a step-change in modelling capabilities. Research themes that may benefit from this technology include:
- Storm surge forecasting
- Whole basin arctic coupled ocean-sea ice simulations
- Global ocean coastal modelling
- High resolution climate modelling on global and regional scale for impact assessments
- Mixing and internal waves in ocean models
- Global carbon cycle modeling
- Climate uncertainty
- Linking of socio-economic models with climate models
- Integration of detailed GIS data into weather forecast models
Lloyd's intends to fund insurance relevant research which will use this computing technology over the coming few years.
