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NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade

Posted by timothy on from the in-these-troubled-economic-times dept.

riverat1 writes "After being embarrassed when the Europeans did a better job forecasting Sandy than the National Weather Service Congress allocated $25 million ($23.7 after sequestration) in the Sandy relief bill for upgrades to forecasting and supercomputer resources. The NWS announced that their main forecasting computer will be upgraded from the current 213 TeraFlops to 2,600 TFlops by fiscal year 2015, over a twelve-fold increase. The upgrade is expected to increase the horizontal grid scale by a factor of 3 allowing more precise forecasting of local features of weather. The some of the allocated funds will also be used to hire some contract scientists to improve the forecast model physics and enhance the collection and assimilation of data."

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  1. Go suck Obamas dick you progressive shit birds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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  2. Wrong answers that much faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow...we should be able to get to the wrong conclusion that much faster now. It's not the computer systems that are failing...rather the predicting algorithm the US uses.