Morocco Installs Africa’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Advanced Weather Forecasting

Thanks to this supercomputer, the DGM will have an easier time in forecasting severe weather phenomena. It will also allow the department to be more precise in geographical positions, in order to better perceive the risks, reports the Map.

Named AMTAR, it will also facilitate the development of climate change scenarios planned for Morocco and provide the necessary and accurate information regarding their impacts on the different economic and social sectors of the country, said the Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, specifying that an "ensemble forecasting" system will be installed.

This new supercomputer is 120 times better than the old one and has a peak power of 1 Petaflops, or one million billion operations per second. A great achievement made possible thanks to the participation of the Natural Disaster Mitigation Fund. Its system is based on the LENOVO SR850 platform and equipped with more than 120 nodes of 24 processors each, equivalent to more than 12,000 processors. Its installation also represents a major challenge for the DGM, which is a National Meteorological Center of Reference and a World Meteorological Organization Information Systems Center.

To recall, its implementation is part of the realization of the 2021-2025 strategy of the DGM, whose goals are, among others, to improve the knowledge and anticipation of meteorological and climatic risks, and to develop a range of decision-making and competitive services. Starting next week, AMTAR will be effectively operational, the department has committed.