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New £97m supercomputer for Met Office
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Hope so because currently I'm better off just using seaweed.;)
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They should have just used Amazon EC2
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Amazon would be more reliable anyway since their datacentres are spread across multiple continents, instead of having a single point of failure being that of one datacentre.
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True, but I bet there are data security and probably legal implications regarding the Met Office "subbing out" its modelling work. Also, I would imagine that their utilisation of their own cluster would make it cost effective.
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Possibly. But how much top secret data can there be in... weather predictions... Or is that just what they want you to think it's for? :-P
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You'd be surprised how closely some forecasters guard their models etc.
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I wish they'd spend a fraction of that on getting their website to run at a reasonable pace. It's painfully slow particularly on the recent weather pages.
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The weather industry is a rather lucrative one, and without the advantage of having modelling that others don't have, I doubt the Met can afford a £97 million HPC! |
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Industry and trade secrets don't apply to public agencies funded by public money though, often the opposite - in some jurisdictions any academic research funded by public money must be fully published openly and all data made available freely under open access for example.
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The Met Office does provide some services on a commercial basis I believe.
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This wouldn't be the case if they acted like a "normal" scientific research group, although I certainly see where you're coming from qasdfdsaq |
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