--- title: NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing description: NOAA has selected Google Cloud as the primary HPC provider for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS), marking one of the first... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing | daily.dev og:description: NOAA has selected Google Cloud as the primary HPC provider for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS), marking one of the first... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Vbj8OSfzm.png og:image:alt: NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing **[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NOAA has selected Google Cloud as the primary HPC provider for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS), marking one of the first operational Numerical Weather Prediction centers globally to move to public cloud infrastructure. The system runs on Google Cloud H4D VMs powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, designed for tightly-coupled, compute-intensive simulations. The partnership builds on years of collaboration including petabyte-scale environmental data sharing, AI-based hurricane prediction using Google DeepMind's WeatherNext model, and agentic AI pilots using Gemini for Government. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What cloud provider is NOAA using for its weather supercomputing system WCOSS? Google Cloud was selected as the primary high-performance computing provider for NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, replacing traditional on-premises infrastructure. This makes NOAA one of the first operational numerical weather prediction centers globally to move to the public cloud, using Google Cloud's H4D VMs as the computing backbone. _Follow how cloud providers are reshaping HPC and weather modeling infrastructure on daily.dev._ ### What hardware powers Google Cloud's H4D VMs used for NOAA weather modeling? H4D VMs are powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and are purpose-built for compute-intensive, tightly-coupled workloads like numerical weather prediction. They provide low-latency networking so many machines can operate together as a single, massive computing engine rather than as isolated nodes. _daily.dev helps engineers evaluating HPC instance types track releases like these._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Accelerating innovation and discovery at SC25](https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-innovation-and-discovery-at-sc25-ea0zbtbfe) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models](https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models-5un03xczn) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-weathernext-3-our-most-advanced-and-accurate-global-weather-ai-model-0gnv0uaqj) · DeepMind · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google’s New Quantum Algorithm May Actually Be Useful](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-new-quantum-algorithm-may-actually-be-useful-h6d1o7jde) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm"},"datePublished":"2026-07-27T14:18:53.883Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T09:06:21.030Z","description":"NOAA has selected Google Cloud as the primary HPC provider for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS), marking one of the first...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e079a75ec367ec25fe9a2d073c7703dd?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e079a75ec367ec25fe9a2d073c7703dd?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Google Cloud","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Google Cloud","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/gcp","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/gcp"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"gcp","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Google Cloud","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/gcp"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/noaa-selects-google-cloud-for-weather-supercomputing-vbj8osfzm#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What cloud provider is NOAA using for its weather supercomputing system WCOSS?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Google Cloud was selected as the primary high-performance computing provider for NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, replacing traditional on-premises infrastructure. 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