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U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup
Reported by d1m on Thursday, September 10 2009 8:13 pm
The U.S. meteorological department has recently upgraded their National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system, used for weather forecasting, with the purchase of 2 supercomputers from IBM. The 2 supercomputers are capable of 70 TFLOPS (trillion calculations per second), making it the 50th most powerful computer in the world. With 5000 IBM Power6 processors in between themselves, the system is reportedly 4 times faster than it’s predecessor.
The U.S. meteorological department has recently upgraded their National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system, used for weather forecasting, with the purchase of 2 supercomputers from IBM. The 2 supercomputers are capable of 70 TFLOPS (trillion calculations per second), making it the 50th most powerful computer in the world. With 5000 IBM Power6 processors in between themselves, the system is reportedly 4 times faster than it’s predecessor.
“This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system, which went online in August, is compromised of "Stratus" and its backup, "Cirrus," two separate supercomputers with about 5,000 IBM Power6 chips running AIX operating systems.”
Article via [COMPUTERWORLD]
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