Supercomputer to improve UK weather

[Rick]

 

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/

[MarkS]

Rick,

But how does that manage to improve the weather?

Mark

[Mike]

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.

[Rick]

The headline's lifted directly from the source.  You'll notice I stuck this fella --> before the report. I'm quite sure the headline writer had tongue firmly in cheek.