Grid Computing To Tackle Climate Change
News IBM is to work with academics from the University of Cape Town to use grid computing to model climate change in Southern Africa. The data will be used to model potential scenarios arising from climate change, so that preventative action can be...
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
Reading Supercomputer Tackles Climate Change
News Reading is using the system to support its research into air pollution, climate change, financial modelling, drug discovery, computational biology and meteorology. Chris Guy, head of the school of systems engineering at Reading University, said...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
IBM Breaks The Petaflop Barrier
News The computer will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change, IBM said in a statement. Roadrunner's processing speed of one quadrillion calculations per second enables real-time simulations of events...
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
IBM Throws Weight Behind Environmental Efforts
News In addition, many companies are expecting that carbon emissions will be regulated in the US in order to address climate change. Companies have to start looking at risk around climate change issues," Nunes said.
[March 7, 2007, 8:36]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News At the top of the heap, though, is NEC's Earth Simulator, which models climate change, plate tectonics and other phenomena. The number of computers that can perform more than one trillion calculations per second has risen from 17 to 23.
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Top 500 Supercomputers Announced
News Supercomputing, which pits the highest-end machines against challenges such as forecasting the global climate in coming decades or finding oil reservoirs underground, is a fast-changing field. It was November 2000 when the first supercomputer...
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
Met Office Forecasts SOA Pay-off
News Climate and climate change are seen by industry, government and the public as being more important now. In our climate model, it could be looking at 50 or 70 years ahead, as opposed to a day so. On the climate models, we are the customer for it...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
TeraGrid Supercomputing Project Expands
News Other demonstrations used the system for climate change modeling, high-speed access to data stored at remote sites, and creation of animations of three-dimensional data such as molecular structures. One candidate for future admission is a new...
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
UK's Fastest Supercomputer Unveiled
News Work due to be carried out using Hector includes forecasting the impact of climate change, projecting the spread of epidemics and developing new medicines. Hector — short for High-End Computing Terascale Resource — can handle 63 trillion...
[January 15, 2008, 8:40]
IBM Puts Opteron On The Rack
News Buyers spent less than $1bn last year on super-high-end "capability" systems built to accomplish specific goals such as modelling climate change or predicting nuclear weapons' physics, she said. AMD's Opteron processor runs the same software as do...
[June 24, 2003, 11:20]
HP Dents IBM Supercomputer Dominance
News Its new No.machine, with a top speed of 2.5 trillion calculations per second, is at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, where it will be used to study subjects such as car-engine efficiency, climate change, astrophysics and...
[June 21, 2001, 9:31]
