Swiss Researchers Hoard Vast Trove of NASA Climate Data
Researchers said the move will help train AI models that can forecast weather and natural hazards up to 1,000 times faster.
- Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced late last week that researchers copied around 100 petabytes of NASA data to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano for advanced climate forecasting.
- Researchers initiated the transfer partly to secure data amid deep funding cuts to federal climate science programs by President Donald Trump, though Reto Knutti noted the United States has not yet restricted access.
- It took a year to copy roughly six billion files, equivalent to around 20 million feature-length films, now being integrated with the Alps supercomputer to train AI-based forecasting models.
- These foundation models can be 1,000 times faster than traditional physics-based models, allowing researchers to run global weather forecasts in a minute or so while recognizing patterns more efficiently.
- Researchers also plan to copy datasets from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help protect people from natural hazards like floods and storms by improving prediction skills.
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Swiss researchers shelter a huge treasure of NASA's climate data
NASA climate data copied to Swiss supercomputer for AI training amid US funding cuts
Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models and for safekeeping amid US funding cuts. Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) university announced the move late last week, saying its researchers had copied around 100 petabytes of NASA data to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in the southern city of Lugano.
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Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate data
Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) university announced the move late last week, saying its researchers had copied around 100 petabytes of NASA data to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in the southern city of Lugano. "The sheer amount is impossible to visualise," Reto Knutti, professor of climate physics and head of ETH's Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM), told AFP. It had taken approximately a yea…
Swiss scientists have just sheltered a huge stock of data collected by NASA.
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