[MLUG - DISCUSSION] I.B.M. Gets Contract for Weather Supercomputer

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This will be a real speed demon...


http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/01/technology/01SUPE.html

N.Y. Times
June 1, 2002

I.B.M. Gets Contract for Weather Supercomputer

By JOHN MARKOFF

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 -- As part of an effort to close a growing gap
facing United States scientists in weather prediction, the government
awarded I.B.M. a $224.4 million contract today to build a powerful new
supercomputer.

The machine, which is planned to reach a theoretical peak speed of more
than 100 trillion calculations a second by 2009, will be used to increase
the accuracy of forecasts of weather, floods and ocean conditions by
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, part of the National
Weather Service.

[snip]

The new United States computer, which is planned to be in operation next
spring, ... , will initially have a peak performance of 7.3 teraflops, or
trillions of operations a second, and will be scaled up by adding and
improving processors through 2009.

[snip]

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