Swiss supercomputer fed with a vast trove of NASA data

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich has transferred 100 petabytes of climate and environmental data from NASA cloud servers to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. The volume is enormous: 100 petabytes is roughly equivalent to 20 million feature films. The freely accessible dataset contains climate and Earth observation information collected by the United States space agency over the past 50 years, including data on greenhouse gases, clouds, precipitation,…