NOAA Goes Live With New Forecasting Supercomputers

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:03AM from the better-reports dept.

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? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-26 07:10 · Score: -1, Troll

Oh and by the way, this is EXACTLY what we all predicted will start to happen.
Logic (do you shitbirds actualy know what LOGIC is?) tells us that the rest of what is poredicted will also be coming down the road.
Death panels.
Rationing.
Single payer.
Substandard care and shortages.
Fuck you libtard fuckity fucks.
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