IBM will provide a computer from 42 teraflops to NASA
IBM has concluded an agreement with the U.S. space agency to produce a computer of 67 teraflops, or 67 000 billion operations per second, which serve mainly to climate modeling. The bug, the iDataPlex, combine quad core Xeon 1024 chips with existing NASA, those of Discover.
In fact, the machine that IBM will perform 42 teraflops, in addition to those machines already present at the Agency of 25 teraflops, can be inferred. Tripling the computing power is greater fidelity to physical phenomena available to scientists.
In addition to hardware, IBM will also equip software for the new system through its companies xCat and General Parallel File System.
Its primary function will be to recover the data transmitted by satellite images of Earth to establish patterns and analyze the development climate of the planet, the effects of solar activity especially … But the computer will also examine the cosmic phenomena such as black holes.
