Faster IBM Computer to be Utilized by National Weather Service

The National Weather Service’s parent agency NOAA has announced that it is implementing a new set of IBM computers that will increase the power used for our current weather forecasting by 360%. It can process 14 trillion calculations per second and ingest more than 240 million global observations daily. Reported to be the 36th fastest system in the world, it features 16 1.9 gigahertz Power5+ processors and 160 terabytes of storage. Now if it could just make that massive “Manitoba Mauler” storm coming to the Midwest go away.

 

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