LinuxPR: Revolutionary Weather Research Supercomputer Unveiled

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 24, 2000

“There will be a press conference on Wednesday, April 26, in
Boulder Colorado, regarding the successful production use of “jet”,
a 276-node Alpha Linux Supercomputer. This is the first Linux
cluster to ever win a traditional competetive procurement for a
supercomputer.”

WHAT: A press conference with one of NOAA’s leading weather
technology experts and the president of a pioneering computer firm
to unveil JET, a $15 million super computing system recently
installed at NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder,
Colo.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 10 a.m. MDT
WHERE: NOAA/David Skaggs Research Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder,
Colorado Room GB-124.
WHO: Dr. A. E. “Sandy” MacDonald, Director, Forecast Systems
Laboratory
Dr. Don Fitzpatrick, President and CEO, High Performance
Technologies, Inc. (HPTi)

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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