Debian Cluster Replaces Supercomputer For Weather Forecasting

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 13, 2008 @06:04PM from the when-it-rains-it-pours dept.

wazza brings us a story about the Philippine government's weather service (PAGASA), which has recently used an eight-PC Debian cluster to replace an SGI supercomputer. The system processes data from local sources and the Global Telecommunication System, and it has reduced monthly operational costs by a factor of 20. Quoting: "'We tried several Linux flavours, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Fedora etc,' said Alan Pineda, head of ICT and flood forecasting at PAGASA. 'It doesn't make a dent in our budget; it's very negligible.' Pineda said PAGASA also wanted to implement a system which is very scalable. All of the equipment used for PICWIN's data gathering comes off-the-shelf, including laptops and mobile phones to transmit weather data such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, cloud formation and atmospheric pressure from field stations via SMS into PAGASA's central database."

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Re:Debian? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-03-14 00:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

hahahahaha! That is why WE rule the world! We don't have to waste time discussing: will we install WindowsB, or WindowsC, or even perhaps WindowsD?
You linux geeks waste too much time fighting within your own camp... You should all be praising it and not be fighting like Democrat pre-candidates...