NOAA Buys Supersonic Race Car On The IT Highway. Geeks Worldwide Feel Less Adequate
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So, watcha’ running there on your desktop? Quad core? Octo core? Got that liquid cooler pumping away? Please. You are so behind the curve. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (they’re what sits between the US Department of Commerce and the Weather Service) has just announced their latest big iron supercomputer. Mere mortals will quiver!
The new supercomputers, based on IBM Power 575 Systems, are four times faster than the previous system, with the ability to make 69.7 trillion calculations per second. Higher computation speed allows meteorologists to rapidly refine and update severe weather forecasts as dangerous weather develops and threatens U.S. communities. Billions of bytes of weather observations are fed into the system each day, including temperature, wind, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and other oceanographic and satellite information taken from the ground, air, sea and space.
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