Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms

pillageplunder writes "CNN has an interesting article on how different supercomputers from around the world are working to predict large storms tracks. The 3 days it takes now has been cut in half. Cool read."

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Fortran is faster

[amorsen]

Fortran compilers are guaranteed that the programs do not try to do strange things behind their backs (such as pointer aliasing). Therefore they can make optimizations that would be almost impossible to prove valid in, say, C. Also, Fortran numerical libraries are of very high quality.