GAEA

GAEA is located in Oak Ridge, TN and operated by the National Climate-Computing Research Center (NCRC) The NCRC is a collaborative effort between the Department of Energy and the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration. It is located within the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at ORNL’s National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS).

The Gaea System consists of two HPE Cray XC40 supercomputers and an HPE Cray EX supercomputer.

NOAA uses Gaea to study the earth's notoriously complex climate from a variety of angles. Gaea powers research into the relationship between climate change and extreme weather, such as hurricanes. Gaea enables scientists to better understand the relationship between the atmosphere’s chemical makeup and climate and assists to unlock the climate’s role played by the oceans that cover nearly three-quarters of the globe.

Image is of the NOAA Gaea supercomputer located in Oak Ridge, TN. Gaea is a supercomputer with 143,936 Intel cores and consists of multiple black cabinets (19 are shown in the image). The racks of hardware components are stacked vertically to save space, allow for ease of connecting the many nodes and cores of the supercomputer, and to improve efficiency in cooling. In this picture, an artwork is placed in front of the black cabinets showing picturesque hilly coastal scene which has been divided up on the
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