NOAA’s next supercomputer will be a Cray-IBM hybrid system

Computerworld: On Jan. 14, the U.S. upgraded its main weather forecasting model, which subsequently did a very good in predicting the track of last week's East Coast blizzard. It correctly predicted that heavier snows would be east of New York City, even as the official weather forecast -- based on a mix of computer models -- had the city getting buried in two feet of snow..

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