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Tuesday September 16, 2008 Video: TACC Ranger Tackles Hurricane Forecast
Thanks to Inside HPC for pointing us to this story in the Austin Statesman:
"TACC’s Ranger supercomputer has recently been tasked by two weather research teams to make detailed forecasts and high-resolution studies of this season’s hurricanes affecting the US. The models are really beginning to stike a chord as 165 miles southwest, Houston is still feeling the effects of Hurricane Ike.
"They are using a huge amount of computer horsepower,” said [Karl Shulz,associate director of TACC] , who said using the new models to crunch through storm data can use as much as two-thirds of Ranger’s computer capacity over a period of several hours. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Videos] ( September 16, 2008 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
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