NASA Upgrades Weather Research Supercomputer

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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Re:Open models are imperative

[pablodiazgutierrez]

I'd rather have less iterations per day on a good model than many of a crap model.

Well, as long as the simulation doesn't go slower than the weather itself. Sounds silly, but it's a relevant point.