76 teraflops supercomputer predicts weather
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Power 575 Hydro-Cluster is the name of the supercomputer NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) is using to do its research on severe climate and climate change trough the country and even around the world.Also called Bluefire the supercomputer has a capacity of 76 teraflops, meaning 76 trillion floating-point operations per second and it is one of the 25 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
The meteorologic supercomputer is equipped with the new POWER6 microprocessor, which has a clock speed of 4.7 gigahertz, 4.064 processors, 12 terabytes of memory, and 150 terabytes of fast disk storage.
The research work Bluefire will be used for includes future patterns of climate brought up by climate change, changes to agriculture, the influence of global warming and forecast of meteorological events such as hurricanes or tornados.
Researchers are hoping that Bluefire will be a powerful tool for a better understanding of future climate changes and for the forecast of meteorological disasters.
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