NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud
Those machines – Dogwood and Cactus – could crank almost 14 PFlops of weather-predicting prognosis. It was the in-house systems that were holding things back, evidently. “Cloud-based high-performance computing will accelerate the transition of research into operations by eliminating traditional bottlenecks of on-premise systems,” said NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs in a statement.
- ▪Those machines – Dogwood and Cactus – could crank almost 14 PFlops of weather-predicting prognosis.
- ▪It was the in-house systems that were holding things back, evidently.
- ▪“Cloud-based high-performance computing will accelerate the transition of research into operations by eliminating traditional bottlenecks of on-premise systems,” said NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs in a statement.
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