Project Description
Project name: Copernicus Marine – Production – Provision of ocean monitoring and forecasting products (COP-MFC-5000)
Funded by: Contract with Now Systems, within the Copernicus programme, funded by the European Commission. This project is part of the “Copernicus Marine Service (2021-2027)”, whose implementation has been entrusted to Mercator Ocean International.
Project overview:Provide daily forecasts of various physical and biogeochemical parameters of the ocean for the European Atlantic region through a series of modelling applications.
Provision of integrated ocean analysis and forecasting services within the Copernicus Marine Service. The Copernicus Marine Service, through its Monitoring and Forecasting Centres (MFCs), provides real-time and delayed-mode modelling products on physical, biogeochemical and sea ice conditions for the global ocean and European regional seas. In total, there are seven MFCs in operation, one global and six regional, focusing on the different European basins and seas.
CESGA provides high-performance computing (HPC) resources and computing and support infrastructure, as specified in the technical proposal, for the development of activities corresponding to the Copernicus IBI-MFC Marine Environment Forecasting and Monitoring Service, focused on the generation of analysis and forecasting products for the European Atlantic coast, covering the entire oceanic platform of the Iberian Peninsula, the Bay of Biscay and Ireland (IBI).
Support includes:
– Supercomputing resources, with Finisterrae III being the IBI-MFC production machine (used for the production of both real-time and multi-annual products). Pre-operation and development environments will also be provided for the IBI-MFC consortium.
– Contributing to ensuring
the dissemination of IBI-MFC products through the required user interface, with the committed timeliness (guaranteeing the necessary bandwidth) and security (complying with the service’s cybersecurity requirements).
– Support the migration and porting of applications to the operating environment for any new developments related to operational service improvements (in accordance with the commitments for the evolution of the IBI-MFC systems and following the proposed evolution plans).
– Contribution to the optimisation of operating systems and ocean wave, physics and biogeochemistry models used (e.g. WAM, NEMO-PISCES); studying and proposing uses for new architectures and accelerators in IBI applications. In particular, related to the use of heterogeneous computing (combination of CPUs and GPUs for pre-processing and post-processing tasks of the IBI-MFC operational I/O).
– Support for the operational monitoring of the IBI-MFC, contributing to the updating and improvement of the IBI-Trol monitoring tool.
Starting: 01/01/2025
Ending: 30/06/2028
Related news: The digital (and Galician) twin of the ocean (in Spanish)