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El Loro posted 29/10/2014

Any of you thinking about upgrading to a Cray XC40 computer?

 

It's quite fast and should be adequate. It's actually very fast as it can do 16,000,000,000,000,000 calculations a second.

There are a few disadvantages such as it weighs 140 tonnes and takes up quite a lot of space. It's also on the expensive side at £97m.

That was the Met Office's purchase back in 2014.

They are replacing that and the other supercomputers they had with a new system at a mere cost of £1.2 billion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-51504002

El Loro
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