Archive for May 9th, 2008

NCAR Climate Water-Cooled Supercomputer Aims to Save Lives

IBM’s next generation water-cooled super computer architecture will replace three previous supercomputers, all while increasing processing power nearly 4-fold(Source: Carlye Calvin, UCAR)

The Integrated Computing Environment for Scientific Simulation (ICESS) project at NCAR is overseen by Tom Bettge, director of operations and services for NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. He hopes the research will be applied to saving lives from severe weather.(Source: Carlye Calvin, UCAR)New IBM built climate computer in Colorado will help analyze deadly severe weather and climate change
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Friday, May 9th, 2008