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Linux To Power NWS's Storm Prediction System

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @10:41PM from the mind-the-ups-batteries-please dept.

Mr. Plow writes "The National Weather Service is migrating to Linux-based IBM workstations and has purchased 900 IBM computers and 160 servers to do so." He includes links to coverage at Forbes (a Reuters wire service story there), Government Computer News, and Computerworld.

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Re:Bravo by enodev · 2003-12-09 23:05 · Score: 1, Redundant

I suppose they've upgraded their data storage system as well (160 servers...). And application load time is also greatly depend on memory, cache size and linear transfer time. Just skipping 2 generations of computer evolution should really bring you more than a factor 3. But then again they probably start it just once a day.