£33 Million Supercomputer At Work

12 Responses to £33 Million Supercomputer At Work

1. Green Sand says:

   January 2, 2011 at 12:07 am

   OT,

   Where is that bloke with his kayak? He could do a bit of ferry work:-

   “Ten ships, 600 crew trapped in frozen Sea of Okhotsk”

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12099928

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   • Mike Davis says:

     January 2, 2011 at 12:11 am

     They probably relied on the MET office for their forecast!

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     • Latitude says:

       January 2, 2011 at 2:21 am

       The MET has a build in CO2 fudge factor.
       As long as they keep running their computer programs with built in global warming, they will keep getting it wrong.

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2. PJB says:

   January 2, 2011 at 1:38 am

   That’s the problem! With only 33 million, they didn’t get the “good” grants so they could only afford used computers and old data.
   Obviously they are in-line for a significant increase in funding and much more believable forecasts….. /sarcoff

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   • Mike Davis says:

     January 2, 2011 at 1:46 am

     It is real tuff having to rely on used computers and data because there are only so many recipes for left over data and you you keep it to long it spoils!

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3. Green Sand says:

   January 2, 2011 at 2:15 am

   The present £33m Tandy Radio Shack is obviously suffering from something as it has not yet produced HadCrut3 for November, well it has not announced it yet.

   Interesting that HadSST2 has been in since 5th Dec at +0.237C. I think HadSST2 is 75% of HadCrut3?

   http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadsst2gl.txt

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   • peterhodges says:

     January 2, 2011 at 2:35 am

     guess they have stuck with the commodore

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     • Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

       January 2, 2011 at 7:01 am

       They sticking with the Texas Instrument calculators?

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4. Andy Weiss says:

   January 2, 2011 at 3:30 am

   Most Brits would welcome a BBQ summer at this point!

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   • Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

     January 2, 2011 at 6:53 am

     The Met and the CRU would welcome a good reputation about this point. But, no barbecue summer and no repairing the reputation.

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5. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   January 2, 2011 at 6:37 am

   They could have gone home and went online from their own computer to look up Piers Corbyn’s web site. Then just pay like 20 bucks for his winter forecast. They would be more accurate. No need for the biggie computer.

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