World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Devoted to Climate Change Turns On

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World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Devoted to Climate Change Turns On

A new supercomputer devoted completely to climate change has turned on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. This is not the first supercomputer to tackle climate change, NASA has been running climate simulations with one since 2008 and just this year the Department of Energy began using one to help advance clean technologies like batteries and smart grid tools, but this one is the most powerful one to focus on climate change exclusively. The 1.5 petaflop IBM computer can run an astonishing 1.5 quadrillion calculations per second, ranking it in the top 20 most powerful computers in the world. As Time Techland reports, that means a mammoth amount of computing power will now be dedicated to "studying everything from hurricanes and tornadoes to geomagnetic storms, tsunamis, wildfires, air pollution and the...

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