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Polytope

Polytope is the high-level service of the FDB technology that provides semantic access to the FDB data through HTTP RESTFUL API requests. It is an important component to give access to data out of the network and other HTTP services.

Typically, this is required in a NHMS operational environment on post-processing framework that run using services in a cloud/container platform without access to the operational filesystem/network.

In this quarter we successfully deployed Polytope for the FDB that holds COSMO/ICON data at MeteoSwiss. The design considers a cross-platform deployment between CSCS (that host FDB) and AWS in order to leverage the use of AWS managed services. 
The design is shown in the figure below. A similar design will be deployed for the ECMWF production, in order to serve IFS production data to the use cases of the pilot project running in EWC. 

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