Posted on 01/11/2016 1:33:56 PM PST by Citizen Zed
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- One of the most powerful computers in the world dedicated to climate change, weather and other earth science research will be replaced in 2017 by an even faster machine, officials announced Monday.
The Yellowstone supercomputer in Wyoming currently ranks among the 60 fastest in the world. The new supercomputer, to be named Cheyenne, will be at least 2 1/2 times more powerful, the National Center for Atmospheric Research said.
Capable of 5.3 quadrillion calculations, or petaflops, per second, Cheyenne will be some 100,000 times faster than a typical home computer. The speed provides unprecedented detail in climate-change predictions, including regional modeling of effects, the centre said.
A more powerful computer will allow researchers to see results in higher resolution, like a higher density of pixels sharpens images on a television or a stronger telescope brings a greater number of far-off galaxies into focus, explained Rich Loft, the centre's director of technology.
Scientists since 2012 have been using the Yellowstone supercomputer near Cheyenne for a range of research that also includes modeling air pollution and ocean currents.
The atmospheric research centre plans to install Cheyenne later this year and put it to work early next year. Questions it might help answer include:
-- Is the California drought a fluke or due to global climate change?
-- Can scientists predict the intensity of solar flares -- streams of radiation released by the sun that can endanger satellites and astronauts -- during an upcoming solar cycle?
-- How might climate change increase the likelihood of drought and change the extent of arctic sea ice from decade to decade?
The Yellowstone computer, located in a business park west of Cheyenne, put Wyoming's capital on the map as a potential technology hub. Facilities including a huge Microsoft data centre have set up nearby since the centre opened.
The Cheyenne supercomputer will be about three times as efficient as Yellowstone, using 90 per cent as much electricity but taking up to a third as much space. The machine will be built by Milpitas, California-based Silicon Graphics International Corp.
The University Corp. for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of more than 100 North American universities and colleges, oversees the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Both organizations are based in Boulder, Colorado.
We cannot change the sun and no amount of faster computers will change that fact.
No matter how big or fast the computer may be, it cannot be better than its programming.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
They will continue to feed incorrect and/or incomplete information and use the wrong manipulations of the “data” to arrive at the “correct” answer, and it will be found to be “scientific”.
This will allow them to identify data that doesn’t support global warming and delete it 100,000 times faster.
This is great technology. Now set the date to 2116 and have it run backwards to see if it arrives at today’s temperature. Or start it today and see if it gets the temperature in 1916 right.
Running Windows 2000.
GIGO
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
More powerful computer to run flawed models. Our government at work.
Who was the guy that disproved the models with a pocket calculator? He didn’t even need a supercomputer to show these guys they were idiots!
“So the garbage they are feeding in will result in even worse garbage out”
No, but you’ll get the outgoing garbage much quicker
You can generate a lot of lies with a machine like that! Makes me think of the old saying about a lie making it around the world before the truth can get its pants on.
why do you need a powerful computer to study climate change?
the science is already settled!
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So it can be programed to crank out socialist crap at record breaking speed?
The boot-up in the morning still takes as long or longer than the Atari days back in the early 1980s.
And quicker. Much quicker.
PCs not running Windows can almost reach that goal.
Will it be monitoring the Yellowstone caldera to detect when it is about to be buried under a mile of volcanic ash?
GIGO -- only 2.5X quicker...
Still crap...
Turbo button-—sheesh, blast from the past.
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So it will answer my search results and questions before I even think of them?
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