Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 2, 2014 @02:00PM from the clearer-pictures dept.

dcblogs writes A supercomputer upgrade is paying off for the U.S. National Weather Service, with new high-resolution models that will offer better insight into severe weather. This improvement in modeling detail is a result of a supercomputer upgrade. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which runs the weather service, put into production two new IBM supercomputers, each 213 teraflops, running Linux on Intel processors. These systems replaced 74-teraflop, four-year old systems. More computing power means systems can run more mathematics, and increase the resolution or detail on the maps from 8 miles to 2 miles.

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Re:Have the solutions converged? by the+eric+conspiracy · 2014-10-02 14:53 · Score: 3, Insightful

Well the possibility is that at some level the weather will exhibit chaotic behavior and no matter how big your model gets it won't matter - the coin flip will be just as good.