Anti-Hurricaine Grid Computing
- August 14th, 2006
- 5 Comments
Hurricane research just got a little more competent. The Southeastern Universities Research Association has announced a partnership with IBM that will increase the Association’s processing power to 10 trillion calculations per second across a grid of three interlinked IBM p575 servers. The systems are currently installed at Louisiana State and Georgia State, with the third to be built at Texas A&M this fall.
Each p575 server is comprised of 32GB of memory and 16 IBM Power5+ processors running at 1.9 GHz. The systems feature the Globus.org grid software that will allow participating universities to work in a heterogeneous environment.
SURA is a research collective comprised of eight universities who focus their brain powers on similar issues. Hurricanes are, appropriately, their current interest. The data gathered from this concentration can be used to adapt storm surge models and increase the overall efficiency of Hurricane warnings.
Grid Computing Doubles Capability of Hurricane Research [InformationWeek]
fast loan (Who am I?)
1 year ago
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solc (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Another new anti-hurricane technology is a method for the reduction of tropical cyclones’ destructive force - pumping sea water and diffused in the wind at the bottom of such tropical cyclone in its eyewall. http://www.ahtfund.org
Rick W. White (Who am I?)
3 weeks ago
I just thought of something that we should all consider very carefully!
Everybody knows how hurricanes are formed, (warm air rises from ocean waters until enormous amounts of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere).
From dah’ WEB I found, ‘As long as the hurricane remains over waters of 79F or warmer, it continues to pull moisture from the surface and grow in size and force. When a hurricane crosses land or cooler waters, it loses its source of power, and its wind gradually slow until they are no longer of hurricane force– . . .’
We already know that hurricanes cause millions of dollars of damage every year, & we already spend millions tracking & monitoring them.
What happens if we dump planeloads of ice blocks into the ocean water within the eye of the hurricane?
Any rising air would be cooler & we could monitor the resulting wind speed ‘to see if we could detect any lessoning of wind speed’.
It may be a waste of money, but we would know immediately if the concept worked!
If a hurricane that had ‘90MPH wind speed was predicted to do XXX millions of dollars damage’, what happens if the wind speed is reduced 2MPH to 88MPH, (or 86MPH or 84MPH)? We would have a method of tracking the costs versus predicted damages!