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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. Bad predictions even faster! by ohxten · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now they can make crappy predictions even *faster*!

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