• DocumentCode
    743479
  • Title

    Met Office to spend £97M on 16 petaflop supercomputer [News Briefing]

  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    A NEW £97M supercomputer will make the UK´s weather forecasts the most accurate in the world, according to the Met Office. Thehighperformance computer (HPC) will be developed for the Met Office – the body responsible for predicting the weather in the UK – by US manufacturer Cray and will be 13 times more powerful than the system currently used by its meteorologists.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering & Technology
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1750-9637
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/et.2014.1118
  • Filename
    7055508