NOAA Goes Live With New Forecasting Supercomputers

dcblogs writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Thursday switched on two new supercomputers that are expected to improve weather forecasting. The supercomputers are each 213 teraflops systems, running a Linux operating system on Intel processors. The U.S. is paying about $20 million a year to operate the leased systems. The NWS has a new hurricane model, Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF), which is 15% more accurate in day five of a forecast both for forecast track and intensity. That model is now operational and running on the new systems. In nine month, NWS expects to improve the resolution of the system from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers. The European system, credited with doing a better job at predicting Sandy's path, is at 16 kilometers resolution. In June, the European forecasting agency said it had a deal to buy Cray systems capable of petascale performance."

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Re:How do you shitbirds like the ACA now?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm, isn't this what companies like WalMart have been doing for decades? Never enough hours to earn benefits? Yeah, blame the government.

Businesses are greedy and care not for their employees. This hasn't changed much since the first rulers who used slave labor (of course back then who else could you blame but the government?).

This won't last

[ulatekh]

These weather-predicting supercomputers will be shut down by the politicians as soon as they calculate that climate change has nothing to do with human activity, and everything to do with that massive hydrogen-fusion reactor only 93 million miles away.