NCAR Supercomputers at Work - Inside Bluefire

NCAR is home to the first IBM Power 575 supercomputer to be shipped anywhere in the world. Named bluefire (http://bit.ly/l9E0X) on arrival in 2008, the system is over three times more powerful and three times more energy efficient than the supercomputers it replaced. It is also over a million times more powerful than the first recognized supercomputer, the Cray 1-A, which NCAR deployed from 1977-1986. Bluefire consists of 11 cabinets weighing 3,200 pounds each.

NCAR is a world leader in supercomputing for the atmospheric and geosciences, providing services to hundreds of UCAR member universities and affiliates in the U.S. and worldwide through its Computational & Information Systems Laboratory (CISL). Learn more at http://www.cisl.ucar.edu .

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• atmospheric science
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