LinuxMall.com: Bennies and the JET

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“A mere seven months following the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) announcement that it was
acquiring a Linux-based $15 million supercomputer named JET, comes
an announcement of JET’s unveiling on April 26 at its home in
Boulder, Colo.”

“Officials also are planning a media tour to celebrate JET’s
first of three evolutionary phases scheduled to take place over the
next five years. Upon JET’s initial installation, officials have
said that it will be running at a rate of a third of a Teraflop, or
a third of a trillion arithmetic operations per second, providing a
computer system that is 20 times more powerful than the the
previous computer system at NOAA’s Forecast System Laboratory
(FSL). By the time JET receives its final upgrade, officials said
it will be processing about 4 Teraflops of data.”

“Designed and built entirely using the Linux operating system,
JET will be running weather models over the next two years at a
rate of 2 to 4 Teraflops. Officials have claimed that FSL is the
first government laboratory to use Linux in a supercomputer. JET is
the product of a contract between the NOAA and and Virginia-based
High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), for JET’s installation
and integration.”

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