IBM supercomputer to research climate change
Date: 12-Nov-01
Country: USA
The supercomputer, code-named "Blue Sky", will enable the Boulder, Colorado-based research center's to process information about climate changes at seven teraflops, or seven trillion calculations per second.
The $24 million computer was purchased by the National Science Foundation, the research center's primary sponsor.
The research center will use the computer to forecast climate changes that impact agricultural output, heating oil prices and global warming, IBM said.
The supercomputer will be supplied in two stages with the first part delivered this fall and doubling the computer's speed to two teraflops, or two trillion calculations per second. In the fall of 2002, the center will add other computer parts to increase the speed to seven teraflops.
