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FASTER AND FASTER
Weather forecasters will get some help with IBM's new supercomputer, Blue Storm, when it goes into service in 2004. Designed for the European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecasts, the device is intended to calculate weather patterns such as storms. The super fast computer will be able to perform more than 20 trillion calculations per second. IBM representatives note that a person using a calculator would need some 17 million years to perform those same calculations.
Faster and Faster
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