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One of the fastest supercomputer systems available will be acquired for weather and climate research to support such activities as hurricane forecasting, El Ni¤o prediction, and climate change assessment, with the award of a $42.7 million contract to Cray Research Inc. of Eagen, Minn., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today.
The new computer system will go to NOAA's Geophysical Fluids Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J. The contract is for a 63-month lease/purchase, with delivery in August 1995.
The initial system, a sixteen processor C90, will be replaced by a Cray T90 sixteen processor system, which will ultimately be upgraded to 30 processors. The new system includes archiving capability to 125 trillion bytes. Also included in the contract is a scalable T3E computer system that will be delivered in 1996.