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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."

3 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. Fp Sh1T by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to d3cli8e for

  2. WoW by eggman9713 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you think this thing can run Crysis with all the settings turned up?

  3. Reality by Befread · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3 weeks before it's used for nothing but porn and freecell.