Organized by Cray and co-organized by CHPC, the conference of High Performance Computing in Weather and Climate was held on 22 March 2010, China World Hotel, Beijing China. More than 60 specialists in meteorology, climate and High Performance Computing from NCAR, ORNL, ARSC, Cray, Altair, CMA, NJU, SSC, NSCTJ, etc. attended this event.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together a group of Chinese and international specialists from the atmospheric and related communities to discuss advances in the HPC landscape.   Topics included requirements from weather, climate and research laboratories, performance of weather forecasting and earth system modeling applications, data management strategies, and physical facility challenges in the presence of petaflop computing systems.