AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade
Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s Katyanna Quach Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 23:36 UTC Share Copy HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) supercomputer using AMD and Nvidia's latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast. That system running today, code-named Cheyenne, is four years old, and now its government-funded lab wants a bigger and faster super to forecast natural disasters unfolding on Earth. Uncle Sam shopped ...
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