NewsForge: Linux Helps Make Weather Forecasts More Accurate

“Weather is a tricky thing to predict, but advances in
Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) are helping
climatologists and global weather modelers achieve faster, more
accurate results.

“Thomas Zacharia, associate lab director at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL), said the Linux movement has had a strong impact
on weather and climate research, as well as other scientific areas
requiring vast simulations, ‘because obviously you’re harnessing
the collective knowledge of large numbers of people around the
world…'”

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