Psyclone Development and Support 2026-27

The supplier Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is government-owned. The Met Office have collaborated with STFC for 10 years on the development of the software tool PSyclone. PSyclone is a domain specific language that enables performance portability of scientific codes on next generation compute architectures like GPUs. PSyclone is a key underpinning component of LFRic, our next generation atmosphere model which is central to our Next Generation Modelling Systems Strategic Action. Furthermore, these capabilities are also important in the preparations for Generation 2 supercomputer procurement.

PSyclone is a specialist scientific software tool developed by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for high-performance computing (HPC). It's a code-generation and optimisation framework that helps scientists run complex simulation models efficiently on modern supercomputers (CPUs, GPUs, clusters, etc.).

The project is cutting-edge research, and ongoing work is strongly dependent on background knowledge of the key workers at STFC. The collaboration is successful and productive.