Cloudrun

A Software-as-a-Service platform that configures and runs the WRF weather prediction model in the cloud to generate custom high-resolution gridded forecast data in NetCDF and GRIB formats without HPC hardware or supercomputer queues. It sells to businesses, research organizations, and meteorologists that need on-demand or recurring forecasts for operations, research, or expeditions. It is positioned as the only WRF modeling SaaS platform and is delivered through a browser with pay-per-use pricing.

Key features

• Run WRF in the cloud via browser
• Forecast Wizard for region and timeframe
• Optimal model configuration automatically
• Schedule recurring and ensemble runs
• View forecasts in browser dashboard
• Download NetCDF and GRIB output
• API access for scripted downloads
• Concurrent scalable parallel compute nodes
• No queues instant start
• Upload custom WRF input files
• Predictive completion time analysis
• Zip download of full model output