Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s Katyanna Quach Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 23:36 UTC Share Copy HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) supercomputer using AMD and Nvidia's latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast. That system running today, code-named Cheyenne, is four years old, and now its government-funded lab wants a bigger and faster super to forecast natural disasters unfolding on Earth. Uncle Sam shopped around and awarded the contract, worth more than $35m, to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.