![]() ![]() ![]() It is a far cry from the first newspaper weather forecast, in 1861. Data is crunched, extracted, fed into simulations and regurgitated as 4m individual forecast products for customers every 24 hours. This massive number cruncher, laid out across three IT halls, ingests 215bn data observations every day, from outer space and the ocean’s depths and the atmosphere in between. If the number of grains of sand on Earth’s beaches is, according to one estimate, 7.5 x 10 18 – or seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion – then by 2020 there will be one bit of weather and climate research stored on the Met Office’s new supercomputer for each grain, or 1.2 exabytes of it, according to David Underwood, the Met Office’s deputy director of high-performance computers. Ironically, MeteoGroup’s service will be based, partly, on Met Office data. The Met Office building in Exeter, Devon. ![]()
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