European Weather Cloud
The European Weather Cloud is the cloud-based collaboration platform for meteorological application development and operations in Europe.
Research and development call currently open
Applicants will be granted infrastructure only. Successful applicants are granted access to computing infrastructure in the European Weather Cloud close to the EUMETSAT and ECMWF data holdings. The infrastructure includes virtual machines (VM), object storage, , and a shared file system. Applications must contain justified estimations of resources required. Projects are expected to range from 50 to 100 vCPUs, 400-800 GB of RAM, 50-100 TB of storage and 4-8 vGPUs.
Should a project exhaust its resource allocation before its completion, the principal investigator can, at any time, apply for an allocation from any resources remaining in the reserve. The project application form can be used again to request additional resources, including a justification for the additional resources are being requested. This form is located on the EUMETSAT website.
The applicants can also include resources from both EUMETSAT and the ECMWF. The same conditions and evaluation process with Special Project applications apply for ECMWF resources, and a separate application is required subsequently to allocate resources on the ECMWF side of the European Weather Cloud.
The following guide is useful for estimating different types of resources:
The following criteria should be taken into consideration when responding to this research and development call:
The evaluation board consists of three representatives from the EUMETSAT Secretariat and up to three representatives from the EUMETSAT member states. The committee will be chaired by the EUMETSAT Chief Scientist.
EUMETSAT reserves resources for small fast-track projects which can last for a maximum of one year. These resources can be applied at any time by submitting the application form along with an extended abstract. The EUMETSAT Secretariat will evaluate the applications following the same criteria that is used for a normal application and makes the decision based on the evaluation and resource availability.
Fast track projects shall not exceed the following resource limits:
4 vGPUs (1 vGPU = 1/8 of NVIDIA GPU RTX A6000)
EUMETSAT expects to receive annual progress reports (except for one-year projects) by three months after each project year, and a final report at the latest three months after the end of a project. The report can be submitted via the website using templates for annual progress and the final report. All reports received will be published on the website.
Project leaders and partners must acknowledge the resources provided by the European Weather Cloud in presentations and publications of project results with the following wording: "We gratefully acknowledge the use of the European Weather Cloud in the context of this research."