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NOAA Kicks Off 2018 with Massive Supercomputer Upgrade

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Faster computers with more storage will boost accuracy, efficiency of U.S. weather models

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018

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By:  Susan Buchanan

NOAA’s combined weather and climate supercomputing system will be among the 30 fastest in the world, with the ability to process 8 quadrillion calculations per second, when two Dell systems are added to the IBMs and Crays at data centers in Reston, Virginia, and Orlando, Florida, later this month.

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