Using supercomputers to predict severe tornadoes and large hail storms

Using supercomputers to predict severe tornadoes and large hail storms

A team of scientists based at the University of Oklahoma (OU) is using supercomputers to learn and predict how the biggest, most severe tornadoes and large hail form. When a hail storm moved through Fort Worth, Texas on May 5, 1995, it battered the highly populated…

New supercomputer open for scientific research – Blue Waters

New supercomputer open for scientific research – Blue Waters

Blue Waters of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, is a petascale supercomputer, one of the fastest in the world. On August 08, 2007, the resolution was passed to fund the acquisition and deployment of the world’s