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The same weight as 11 buses [Express & Echo (England)]
[October 30, 2014]

The same weight as 11 buses [Express & Echo (England)]


(Express & Echo (England) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) THE next generation Met Office supercomputer will be supplied by Seattle-based specialists Cray. Weighing more than 140 tonnes - the equivalent of 11 double decker buses - and capable of more than 16,000 trillion calculations a second, the new Cray XC40 system will be one of the world's fastest high performance computers. The advanced capabilities it will offer are expected to deliver an estimated Pounds 2bn of socio-economic benefits for the UK through enhanced resilience to severe weather and related hazards.



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