NCAR has launched operations of its newest supercomputer, “Derecho,” at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Derecho is a 19.87-petaflops system, with about 3.5 times the computing speed of the previous NCAR supercomputer, “Cheyenne.”

Derecho is initially being used for a set of 15 projects by scientists at NCAR as well as at universities across the country. These projects comprise the Accelerated Scientific Discovery program, which provides a unique opportunity for large-scale computational projects to have nearly exclusive use of new NCAR high-performance computing systems for a few months. Derecho will be open to additional projects by the scientific community later this summer.

For more about Derecho projects, see the NCAR CISL webpage.