Since there isn't one of the climate change models that actually predict correctly how is this going to improve anything?
5.34 petaflop SGI monster forecast at US National Center for Atmospheric Research
SGI and partner DataDirect Networks will spend 2016 beating a path to America's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which named them to deliver its next system in 2017. The iron will replace its 1.5 petaflop Yellowstone with an Intel Xeon-based 5.34 petaflop thumper to improve NCAR's climate and weather modelling …
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Tuesday 12th January 2016 15:39 GMT Pirate Dave
Yellowstone
So, I wonder what they're going to do with all those horribly outdated and crappy nodes in Yellowstone once Cheyenne gets fully up and running? I mean, Xeons from 2012 are pretty much worthless for anything useful, except maybe as boat anchors. So, as a good American, I'll offer some space in my server room to store some of those old racks full or useless junk for a few years. It's my patriotic duty.
and from the sister-site article about the new system:
"The climate code is over 1.5 million lines of code and there are over 100,000 IF-THEN statements, and those kinds of things don’t do as well in GPU-type architectures."
"IF-THEN" statements? The climate code was written in VB6? Yeah, I can't imagine VB translates well to GPU architectures.