New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run on
more powerful supercomputers.
Not exact matches
To grind through the immense amount of data, IBM has custom - tailored one of its most
powerful supercomputers, capable of processing
more than 22 trillion operations per second.
According to Yousuke Sato of the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), «this research shows that
powerful supercomputers, by performing
more fine - grained simulations, can help us to model weather and climate patterns in a
more realistic way.
It helps, he notes, that today's smartphones have graphics - processing units
more powerful than a room - filling
supercomputer of 20 years ago.
We also have
supercomputers that are much
more powerful.
With a quantum computer, APL researchers have now shown that these calculations can be done much faster and model much
more complex objects than would be possible using even on the most
powerful classical
supercomputers.
The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and
more powerful than today's
supercomputers.
The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are
more powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than
supercomputers.
The computing power applied to the bitcoin network makes it nearly 3,000 times
more powerful than the combined computational brawn of the world's top 500
supercomputers.
This team used the same guiding physics principles, but used
supercomputers that were many times
more powerful, employing a representation in three dimensions that allowed the various multidimensional instabilities to be expressed.
But China now has the world's two fastest
supercomputers, and three countries (China, Japan, France) have promised by 2020 to unveil an exascale machine — one that can perform a billion billion operations per second,
more than 10 times
more powerful than today's leader.
The PPPL - led code was one of only three codes out of
more than 30 science and engineering programs selected to participate in Early Science programs on all three new
supercomputers, which will serve as forerunners for even
more powerful exascale machines that are to begin operating in the United States in the early 2020s.
Although the typical computer is nowhere near as fast as the world's most
powerful supercomputer, many everyday... read
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What im saying is last gen there weren't any PCs
more powerful then the 360 unless they were
supercomputers or duel GPU PCs.
And Julia Slingo from Reading University admitted it would not get much better until they had
supercomputers 1,000 times
more powerful than at present.
Cheyenne currently ranks as the 20th fastest
supercomputer in the world and the fastest in the Mountain West, although such rankings change as new and
more powerful machines begin operations.