supercomputers
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NASA Cancels Challenge To Juice Up Its Pleiades Supercomputer After One Month
It’s not often NASA gives people the opportunity to tinker directly with its hardware or, in this case, software. Back in early May, the space organisation set coders a challenge — speed up the programs for its Pleiades supercomputer and you could bag yourself up to $US35,000. A month and a half later, it’s decided…
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Australian Scientists Need A New Supercomputer
CSIRO needs some more teraflops. Australia’s peak scientific research organisation has just put out a tender for a petaflop-grade supercomputer to replace the Bragg accelerator cluster that contributes to Australia’s overall scientific distributed computing power.
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This Fascinating Antarctic Water Animation Was Made On Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
The movement of the densest and coldest water in the world makes a big difference to the planet’s climate, but we don’t know much about it. Australia’s most powerful supercomputer, Raijin — named for the Shinto god of thunder, lightning and storms — has been used to model an incredibly detailed look at the underwater…
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Here’s How Much Better NASA’s Weather Models Have Gotten Since Katrina
Almost exactly ten years ago, NASA’s models showed Hurricane Katrina approaching the coast of Louisiana. At the time, most models had a resolution of 50km. Today it’s down to just a little over six kilometres.