A key challenge in commercial salmon farming is to protect fish in their near-shore pens from lice. De-licing is costly and not always effective: ocean currents can return the parasites to reinfest the same fish. To enable the modeling of ocean currents, Oceanbox built a high-performance computing (HPC) platform based on 16 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 servers, each with two 64-core AMD EPYC™ processors.
Through detailed interactive models of predicted ocean currents, services from Oceanbox enable fish-farming companies to analyze the potential impact of parasites. This initial use case is expected to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in efficiency savings to Norway’s large fish-farming industry.