UK government to spend £11m on climate change supercomputingApril 11, 2012 - 21:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The British government is set to spend £11 million on IBM supercomputing capacity to model climate change more effectively, TechEye reports. As part of a £60 investment, the Department for Energy Climate Change (DECC) is looking to improve the UK’s ability to understand and prepare for climate change. Much of the cash for development, around £50 million, will go to the Met Office Hadley Centre to aid climate research and modeling up to 2015. Approximately £11 million has been spent on High Performance Computing. This basically means supercomputing capacity and the hardware necessary for climate modeling. With a load of new kit, it seems that DECC is hoping to give an even more accurate reading of when the world’s penguin population will croak and just when progress can begin for vineyards in the Hull region, the report says. According to DECC, the new investment has taken the form of eight supernodes (32 drawers) of IBM Power775 supercomputer servers. It also includes data archive storage for extra HPC hardware - 33 petabytes of storage, three servers, 5760 media tapes and two tape frames. The full DECC contribution was £7.43 million, for six supernodes, with the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) chipping in £3.76 million for two supernodes and the data archive storage. The idea behind the climate modelling is to help make businesses understand threats better, and provide more evidence to support greater use of renewable energy. Universities Minister David “Two Brains” Willets said that supercomputing is “fundamental to modern research”, especially with increasing data complexity. TechEye says it approached the Met Office about 'The Penguin Question' - to find out what the supercomputer will do exactly, and whether it can give us a precise date for the ice caps melting - but is yet to receive comment. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Ameriabank's Trade Finance portfolio enriched with four prestigious awards from EBRD and IFC Ameriabank received the awards from international financial institutions in recognition of its trade finance operations. Armenian Economy Minister to make trip to UAE May 20-22 A delegation led by Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan will travel to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi on May 20-22 Armenia Security Council chief traveling to Qatar Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan will travel on a working visit to Qatar. Pillars installed in Armenian border village of Kirants In the Armenian village of Kirants, three border markers have been installed, and border guards stand next to them. |