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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News But the biggest shift has been in computing, where water drawn from a local borehole will provide the constant cooling for its 600 servers and the NEC SX-6 supercomputers, with equivalent power of 8,000 PCs, that forecasts weather and maps climate... [09 May 2008]
Met Office supercomputers slash weather errors
News This follows the installation of an NEC SX-6 supercomputer in spring 2004, and compares with an average error reduction rate of 3 per cent in the other five major weather modelling centres in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the US. [28 Apr 2005]
NEC refreshes old-school supercomputer
News Much of the contemporary supercomputer world is focused on machines made up of a network of smaller computers, but NEC is going retro with its new model, the SX-7. With its SX line, NEC is continuing to develop this single-system approach. [15 Oct 2002]
NEC scoops supercomputer Met Office deal
News The SX-6 NEC supercomputer is technologically similar to the NEC Earth Simulator, which was recently crowned the world's most powerful supercomputer after toppling one of IBM's machines. The SX-6 has a processor capable of making eight billion... [26 Jul 2002]
