Development for Forecast-In-A-Box

Contract title

Oxidian

Contract number

DE_397e

Overview

DE_397e_OXEU

DE_397e_OXEU (ITT/363_Lot 10) contract is for the backend development of Forecast-in-a-Box, a self-contained software solution under the Destination Earth initiative that makes ECMWF’s machine-learning weather forecasts accessible, portable, and user-configurable. The solution allows users to configure, run, and visualise forecasts locally or on external HPC/cloud systems, with reduced computational cost and data transfer. The contract focuses on improving backend optimisation (performance and scalability), hardening (robustness, error handling, fault tolerance), and portability (HPC integration, platform support, documentation).

Provider

The provider for this contract is Oxidian

German Aerospace Center