Met Office Inks GBP33 Million Deal For IBM Petaflop Supercomputer
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UK’s weather forecasting department, Met Office, has penned a GBP33 million contract with IBM, for a new supercomputer that would help the weather forecaster in providing the comprehensive details of the weather conditions to its users.System P supercomputer- which is able to run at a maximum speed of 125 trillion points operations per second- is said to be the second fastest computer of UK, after the European Centre’s Medium-Range Weather Forecasts...
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