IBM sells climate research supercomputer

mainman · Feb 11, 2004, 03:28 AM

"The University of California, Irvine has bought eight IBM computers to run an interconnected collection of global climate simulations.

The overall system, which cost more than $1 million, consists of eight p655 machines, each with eight 1.5GHz Power4+ processors, and one p690 with 32 1.7GHz Power4+ processors, according to IBM and the university."

"The system will be used to examine issues such as how sensitive the climate is to effects such as soot from car exhaust settling on snowfields, Zender said. It also will be used to test the models themselves by comparing what they forecast with what actually takes place in the real world."

Source: cnet.com

Feb 11, 2004, 03:28 AM	#1
mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,961 Rep Power: 71	IBM sells climate research supercomputer "The University of California, Irvine has bought eight IBM computers to run an interconnected collection of global climate simulations. The overall system, which cost more than $1 million, consists of eight p655 machines, each with eight 1.5GHz Power4+ processors, and one p690 with 32 1.7GHz Power4+ processors, according to IBM and the university." "The system will be used to examine issues such as how sensitive the climate is to effects such as soot from car exhaust settling on snowfields, Zender said. It also will be used to test the models themselves by comparing what they forecast with what actually takes place in the real world." Source: cnet.com