ECMWF Pilot Project on Emerging Technologies (ELEMENT)

The pilot project aims to encourage cooperation among ECMWF’s member states in emerging technologies to modernize and make data access more democratic, as well as to enhance distributed data computing capabilities for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). By pooling expertise, we are developing a blueprint workflow tailored for multiple member states, with the potential to utilize European Weather Cloud (EWC) resources, which allow applications to run close to the data. This workflow is designed with flexibility for deployment in member states' computing facilities or public cloud environments. In addition, there is a commitment to establishing continuous discussions within a dedicated forum focused on GPU and other accelerators, with an emphasis on adaptation strategies like Domain Specific Languages (DSLs).