“Researchers working on ways to improve weather forecasting
unveiled a new $17 million supercomputer Wednesday that will be
able to make five trillion calculations per second….”
“Installation of JET comes just three months after the National
Centers for Environmental Prediction in Camp Springs, Md.,
installed its own new IBM supercomputer for use in daily forecasts.
That machine is expected to peak at about 2.5 trillion calculations
per second.”
“Days after that computer went into service a winter storm
caught forecasters in the Washington area off guard – a problem
MacDonald said his new installation should help ease….“
“JET was developed by High Performance Technologies Inc. using
the Linux operating system. It replaces a computer that could do
about 100 million calculations per second.”
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