:D
The Met Office, home of UK weather forecasting, is getting a shiny new supercomputer from IBM.
The £33m contract with IBM, which covers maintenance, support and a mid-life upgrade, will run until 2013. The machine should have total peak performance of 1 Petaflop by 2011 - some 30 times more powerful than the Met's current supercomputer, a cluster of NEC SX-8 machines which replaced a Cray in 2004.
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/met_office_supercomputer/
Rick,
But how does that manage to improve the weather?
Mark
By pumping out so much heat that it causes global warming making more snow on mountain tops for skiing and hotter weather in the UK.
The headline's lifted directly from the source. You'll notice I stuck this fella --> :D before the report. I'm quite sure the headline writer had tongue firmly in cheek.