IBM supercomputer will forecast weather, monitor air quality for Summer Games
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When the Summer Olympics get under way next year in Beijing, a supercomputer built at Armonk-based IBM Corp.’s factory in Poughkeepsie will help organizers and athletes figure out whether rain gear is in order.
The Beijing Meteorological Bureau will be using a System p575 supercomputer, which can perform 9.8 trillion calculations per second. It will be among the 10 fastest supercomputers in China.
The machine, which is 10 times more powerful than the computer it’s replacing, can provide hourly weather forecasts for a 44,000-square-kilometer area (16,988 square miles). The supercomputer will also predict air quality in Beijing during the Games.
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