Weather forecasts with Cray Linux
"Weather is a tricky thing to predict, but advances in Linux-based High
Performance Computing (HPC) are helping climatologists and global
weather modelers achieve faster, more accurate results. Thomas Zacharia,
associate lab director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), said the
Linux movement has had a strong impact on weather and climate research,
as well as other scientific areas requiring vast simulations,"because
obviously you're harnessing the collective knowledge of large numbers of
people around the world."
Zacharia said ORNL's 456-processor Altix system from SGI running Linux
delivers six times better performance than the previous generation of
systems from a variety of vendors.
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John Parks, deputy division chief of the Advanced Supercomputing
Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, said there is indeed a
migration to Linux and other technologies, including Cray's X1, in
climate and weather research. Parks said researchers anticipate Cray
will release a Linux version of the X1, formerly known as SV2."
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Asteris Masouras