Korean Meteorological Administration – Cray systems

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KMA the Korean Meteorological Administration was a steady user of Cray systems.After replacing a NEC SX-5 in 2004 with a Cray X-1 the site hosted a Cray X-1E followed by a KE6 then an XC40 .

In-depth reviews :

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KMA Products

Currently  “The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) is building a large-scale weather and climate data hub that will be freely accessible to the public. Hundreds of petabytes (PB; 1 petabyte equals 1 quadrillion bytes) of weather and climate data held by the KMA will be provided free of charge for public use.”  Read more Here.

 

 

KMA Systems

 

Editor notes : The Image of the earlier NEC SX-5 in lower RHS is mislabeled Cray XE6

 

A Celebration Mug

 

 

 

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