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NASA Upgrades Weather Research Supercomputer

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-thermometers dept.

Cowards Anonymous writes "NASA's Center for Computational Sciences is nearly tripling the performance of a supercomputer it uses to simulate Earth's climate and weather, and our planet's relationship with the Sun. NASA is deploying a 67-teraflop machine that takes advantage of IBM's iDataPlex servers, new rack-mount products originally developed to serve heavily trafficked social networking sites."

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  1. s-h-h-h-h-h by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Actually, most of the time the climate modelers sit around and get buzzed on redbull and jolt and play poker against the astrophysicists. Once every few months they fire up those supercomputers and run the academic bullshit jargon generator program for research grants proposals and for the latest peer reviewed *snicker* journal articles *more snicker*. The ones who consistently lose their lunch money at poker get kicked out and then go to wall street and become quants.

  2. Re:Big Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who needs accuracy when we have Algore!