The latest versions of CMAQ, WRF-CMAQ and CAMx are now available on images from the AWS and Azure Marketplaces. These apps come precompiled and optimized for different processors and architectures (x86_64 and AArch64). The images are available to any organization or person with valid AWS or Azure accounts. CMAQ includes the ISAM and DDM3D models in addition to the standard compilation. The images also incorporate several pre and postprocessing tools such as NCL, SMOKE, IDV or VERDI among others.
We have performed several benchmarks with the images to evaluate performance with different public cloud hardware. For CMAQ, the first benchmark is the standard U.S. Southeast (2016) benchmark with a domain size of 100x80x35 and 218 tracked species. The figure shows wall (computational) times from the benchmark versus the number of cores for different AWS/Azure options and the EPA cluster.