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"The MoES augmented its computational capacity up to 4 petaflops at IITM, Pune, and 2.8 petaflops at NCMRWF. With the new supercomputer, India will jump from 368th to the top 30 HPC facilities in the world. This facility will also be utilized by other MoES institutes for research activities, to improve their respective weather and climate services.The NCMRWF facility will be used mainly to cater to daily operational forecasts of MoES institutes. In terms of dedicated HPC resources for the weather and climate community, India will be ranked fourth, below the United Kingdom, United States of America and Japan, an IITM source said. Pune: Soon, India will have access to better weather prediction services.The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has recently enhanced its computational capacity 6.8 petaflops at two MoES institutes, Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in Noida.The high-performance computing facility, to be inaugurated at IITM on Monday by Union minister Harsh Vardhan, will be used for carrying out research on improving weather and climate prediction, and their applications..