Numlock Sunday: Casey Crownhart on the dream to out-compute storms
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week I spoke to Casey Crownhart, who wrote “How two new supercomputers will improve weather forecasts” for MIT Technology Review. Here's what I wrote about it: The National Weather Service’s computational capacity jumped substantially recently, from a level of 4.2 petaflops in 2018 to 12.1 petaflops in 2020. The two supercomputers — one in Virginia, one in Arizona — each have a
Numlock Sunday: Casey Crownhart on the dream…
By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week I spoke to Casey Crownhart, who wrote “How two new supercomputers will improve weather forecasts” for MIT Technology Review. Here's what I wrote about it: The National Weather Service’s computational capacity jumped substantially recently, from a level of 4.2 petaflops in 2018 to 12.1 petaflops in 2020. The two supercomputers — one in Virginia, one in Arizona — each have a