Universities in the southeastern United States are building a computer grid designed to help scientists predict storm surges well in advance of an approaching hurricane to give government officials a better idea of when to order evacuations, writes Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld.
The grid is part of an initiative by the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), and IBM on Friday, announced that it would be providing the program with Unix systems and software in a three-year deal.
“The addition of these high performance IBM macines will increase SURAgrid’s compute capacity to about 10 trillion calculations per second – an amount that would take one person with a calculator about eight million years to perform,” says IBM.
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