Monsoon3

Introduction to the Monsoon service

Monsoon3 is the third iteration of the collaborative HPC hosted at the Met Office in Exeter and is a key piece of underpinning infrastructure for the strategic partnership between the Met Office and NERC. It aims to improve collaboration between scientists funded by the two organisations by facilitating:

• Sharing of modelling results
• Joint development of software
• Access to Met Office data

The Monsoon service currently consists of:

• 130 nodes
• 256 GiB of memory per node
• 2 CPUs per node (AMD Milan)

Monsoon3’s architecture consists of:

• x86 architecture
• NUMA configuration
• Zen 3 instruction set
• 8 chiplets per CPU
• Each chiplet has 8 cores
• Each chiplet shares an L3 cache

More detailed technical specifications can be found here.

Help and Support

For help and support on the Monsoon service users should contact:

• Monsoon support (monsoon AT metoffice.gov.uk) for all questions about service delivery, login issues, and current or potential collaborative project proposals.
• CMS Helpdesk for all questions relating to running the UM on Monsoon.
• Further information can also be found in the Monsoon User Guide available on MOSRS