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NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is embarking on a transformative journey to redefine how we understand and predict patterns in the Earth’s atmosphere that affect the weather we face every day. Today, we are proud to announce that Google Cloud was selected as the primary provider of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS).

This program represents a pivotal shift for NOAA as it transitions from a more traditional, on-premises computing agency to cloud-first infrastructure—a major milestone as one of the first operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) centers globally to move to the public cloud. By modernizing WCOSS on Google Cloud, NOAA is positioning the United States to lead global weather modeling through scale, speed, and reliability.

Google Cloud H4D VMs, powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC™ processors, are serving as the primary computing backbone for NOAA on Google Cloud. Purpose-built for...

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