Next time you check the weather forecast, take a moment to give special thanks to a supercomputer. For although the brief daily prediction from Met Éireann that most of us catch on radio or television sounds simple, it is the result of extremely complex number crunching and modelling done on Ireland’s most powerful computer, a mammoth named Stokes.
Supercomputer Stokes Soaks Up Statistics to Predict the Weather
February 27, 2009