16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office

Memetic writes: The UK weather forecasting service is replacing its IBM supercomputer with a Cray XC40 containing 17 petabytes of storage and capable of 16 TeraFLOPS. This is Cray's biggest contract outside the U.S. With 480,000 CPUs, it should be 13 times faster than the current system. It will weigh 140 tons. The aim is to enable more accurate modeling of the unstable UK climate, with UK-wide forecasts at a resolution of 1.5km run hourly, rather than every three hours, as currently happens. (Here's a similar system from the U.S.)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

Re:Dude, you're getting a CRAY, also error in summ

[Anonymous Coward]

What, are you suggesting they fucking read the articles they're going to post? Or more absurdly yet, be broadly informed about the general goings on in technology?

One might even imagine that this headline, the weekly articles about the latest multi-teraflop figures from single GPUs, and some working synapses might have raised a SIGREDFLAG or something.

As a British nerd

[ssam]

As a British nerd my 2 favourite topics of conversation are the weather and super computers, so this is exciting news.

Re:As a British nerd

[Hognoxious]

You don't like trains? Weirdo!