Abstract. To promote cloud and HPC computing, GRAPEVINE* project objectives include using these tools along with open data sources to provide a reusable IT service. In this service a predictive model based on Machine learning (ML) techniques is created with the aim of preventing and
controlling grape vine diseases in the wine cultivation sector. Aside from
the predictive ML, meteorological forecasts are crucial input to train the
ML models and on a second step to be used as input for the operational
prediction of grapevine diseases. To this end, the Weather and Research
Forecasting model (WRF) has been deployed in CESGA's HPC infrastructure to
produce medium-range and sub-seasonal forecasts for the targeted pilot areas (Greece and Spain). The data assimilation component of WRF – WRFDA – has been also introduced for improving the initial conditions of the WRF model by assimilating observations from weather stations and satellite
precipitation products (Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrieval for GPM – IMERG). This methodology for assimilation was developed during STARGATE* project, allowing the testing of the methodology in the operational service of GRAPEVINE. The operational production of the forecasts is achieved by the cloudify orchestrator on a Kubernetes cluster. The connections between the Kubernetes cluster and the HPC infrastructure, where the model resides, is achieved with the croupier plugin of cloudify. Blueprints that encapsule the workflows of the meteorological model and its dependencies were created. The instances of the blueprints (deployments) were created automatically to produce operationally weather forecasts and they were made available to the ML models via a THREDDS server. Valuable lessons were learned with regards the automation of the process and the coupling with the HPC in terms of reservations and operational production.
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