[Vision2020] Japan's Earth Simulator: Virtual Modeling of Our Earth

[Ted Moffett]

http://www.gridtoday.com/02/0909/100351.html

Five years in the making, Japan's Marine Science and Technology Center on
March 1 switched on its new, $400-million supercomputer. The massive
machine, located in a specially built building in Yokohama, is called the
Earth Simulator because its primary purpose is to run advanced simulations
on climate, atmospheric, and other Earth sciences. Built by Japanese
manufacturer NEC, the Earth Simulator achieved 35.86 trillions of floating
point operations per second, or teraflops, on the common Linpack benchmark
software. Performance on Linpack is the basis that a group of computer
scientists use to measure the top 500 most powerful supercomputers on the
planet. In fact, the top 500 group now ranks the Earth Simulator as the new
No. 1 number-cruncher among the top 500.

http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/index.en.html

http://www.hoise.com/primeur/02/articles/weekly/AE-PR-05-02-59.html
-------------------------------------------
Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20080502/e8031542/attachment.html