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Weather supercomputer announced for BOM and ANU

March 23rd, 2009

News.com.au has some potentially good news for us flying folk:

A $30 million, four-year project to create Australia’s biggest weather computer is underway.

The new supercomputing system, being built for the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and Australian National University (ANU), will make weather predictions more accurate.

The BOM machine will have the capacity to make about 1.5 trillion complex weather calculations a second as it crunches through weather data from around the country.

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