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Detecting turbulence in the clouds: You all know that it is far safer to travel by plane than by car. Still, major plane crashes occur from time to time. But minor accidents caused by turbulence also happen and have been the cause of about 250 deaths in the U.S. from 1992 to 2001. This is...; Tags: System, Radar, Thunderstorm, Williams, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-09-07
New use of Doppler radars improves hurricane tracking: Forecasters will test a new technique this summer that provides a detailed 3-D view of an approaching hurricane every six minutes and allows them to determine whether the storm is gathering strength as it nears land, according to a release from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.The technique - known...; Tags: Disaster recovery, Science; Blog posts 2007-05-17
10 petaflops at your service: 10 petaflops at your serviceJapanese supercomputersAs summarized in Chapter 3, Japanese firms started manufacturing high-performance vector machines in the early 1980s. By the late 1980s, using vector designs based on high-performance custom processor chips, these manufacturers posed a substantial competitive threat to U.S. producers. They benefited substantially from procurement by...; Tags: Research & Development, supercomputer, Japanese Government; Discussion threads 2005-07-26