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Microsoft to Provide Most Powerful Weather, Climate Supercomputer for UK
- noodlesUK 6y agoI’m sure this is related to the post-brexit loss of the ECMWF, and their associated supercomputer. I don’t know how much the UK relied on them, but they were a very cool group of people to meet.
- matthewmorgan 6y agoThe UK is still in ECMWF.
- noodlesUK 6y agoI stand corrected. Though, it sounds like the new supercomputing centre is in Bologna.
- throw0101a 6y agoFor a pretty good history and overview of weather prediction check out the book The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum. * https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-weather-machine-andrew-blum https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-weather-machine-a... * https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/ At ~220 pages it's a fun little romp. See also Richard Hamblyn's The Invention of Clouds, a biography on Luke Howard: > In December 1802, Luke Howard delivered a lecture that was to be a defining point in natural history and meteorology. He named the clouds, classifying them in terms that remain familiar to this day: cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. This new and precise nomenclature sparked worldwide interest and captured the imaginations of some of the century's greatest figures in the fields of art, literature, and science. Goethe, Constable, and Coleridge were among those who came to revere Howard's vision of an aerial landscape. Legitimized by the elevation of this new classification and nomenclature, meteorology fast became a respectable science. * https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312420017 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312420017
- aliljet 6y agoSupercomputer as a service. That's a bit of a doozy.