Education & ScientificWeatherquest relies on UK Servers for powerful bare metal infrastructure to run advanced weather simulations. With GPU-equipped dedicated servers, virtual firewalls, and offsite Veeam backups, Weatherquest benefits from a secure, high-performance hosting environment built to support their complex modelling requirements.
About Weatherquest
Weatherquest is a specialist UK-based weather services company based at the University of East Anglia, providing forecasts, analysis, and consultancy for businesses and organisations. Their work involves running data-heavy simulations and predictive models that require significant compute power and resilient infrastructure. To deliver accurate and timely forecasts, they needed a robust hosting partner capable of supporting both CPU and GPU workloads.
For more information about WeatherQuest please visit: https://www.weatherquest.co.uk/
The Challenge
Weatherquest’s weather simulation systems demand reliable, high-performance servers with the flexibility to handle GPU acceleration where required. Alongside compute power, secure data protection and disaster recovery were critical priorities, ensuring their valuable forecasting data would remain safe and recoverable in any scenario.
“We rely on the performance and reliability of our hosting infrastructure to deliver accurate forecasting services to our clients,” explains Ian Gooch at Weatherquest. “Having both compute power and peace of mind for our data is essential to our business.”
The Solution
UK Servers worked closely with Weatherquest to provide a fleet of bare metal dedicated servers, tailored for high-performance workloads. Some servers were equipped with GPUs, giving Weatherquest the flexibility to accelerate their simulations and run more complex models efficiently.
To strengthen security and resilience, UK Servers implemented virtual firewalls for network protection and offsite Veeam backups to ensure data integrity and rapid recovery. This combination guarantees Weatherquest can operate with confidence, knowing their compute resources and data are both secure and readily available.
“The hosting solution from UK Servers gives us everything we need — power, security, and reliability. We can run our weather simulations without compromise, and with the reassurance that our data is safe and recoverable.”
IAN GOOCH
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER – WEATHERQUEST
With UK Servers’ infrastructure supporting their simulations, Weatherquest continues to deliver trusted forecasting services, backed by a reliable and future-ready hosting platform.
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