ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, 2011 @07:35AM from the why-yes-interior-decoration-is-important dept.

bricko writes with a description of NOAA's Gaea supercomputer, being assembled at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It's some big iron: 1.1 petaflops, based on 16-core Interlagos chips from AMD, and built by Cray. "The system, which is used for climate modeling and resource, also includes two separate Lustre parallel file systems 'that handle data sets that rank among the world's largest,' ORNL said. 'NOAA research partners access the system remotely through speedy wide area connections. Two 10-gigabit (billion bit) lambdas, or optical waves, pass data to NOAA's national research network through peering points at Atlanta and Chicago.'"

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Maybe they'll finally explain it by AdrianKemp · 2011-12-22 08:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hopefully with all that extra cpu power they can finally explain why a good third of the temperature readings in any given area over the last 70 or so years show a decline in temperature instead of an incline.
I mean, it seems like the sort of thing they should sort out before using too much of that data for already-questionable models