Before flying to Belgium for good, there was still a small matter to settle: Weather-Paragliding...

 

I had restarted the calculations this winter, but the servers were still in my office, in keeping with the do-it-yourself tradition of the project.

"Orange didn't want to connect my premises? No problem, we pulled 80 meters of optical fiber from the paraglider neighbour's living room »

Obviously, it was a temporary installation. The move comes at the right time. In winter, computers replaced the heating, but now it was starting to become the sauna.

The new house

As promised, I opted for a professional infrastructure. No more do-it-yourself. Head to the data center.

Here is the new meteo-paragliding house:

Finally, it looks a lot like the latest supercomputer from Météo-France:

Well, obviously, everything in my house fits in a single cabinet. But it's already a good start.

In any case, the machines will be taken care of, cool all year round and with super internet.

You'll even have to cut off my finger if you want to go visit them:

Invoice level, on the other hand, it stings. This is the normal price of the sector, but it still stings well.

At first, I wanted to take low-cost accommodation at Free, "only €699 excl. VAT / month". But they did not offer enough electrical power for intensive computing.

Finally, I found another datacenter in the Paris region. It's more expensive, but here I can draw 32 amps just for Weather-Paragliding.

Besides, I have a little leeway. So if anyone has any servers lying around, I can accommodate you.

The new barbecues

I had already made a “machinery” investment to relaunch RASP this winter. Here is the second batch for spring...

A few dozen memory sticks:

And processors sold by the kilo:

A round trip to Paris and after 4 days of hassle and unforeseen events, Météo-Parapente's move is (almost) finally over.

Thanks to all the contributors thanks to whom we can now have 3-day forecasts.