By John Oates, 12 August 1999 15:16
NEWS IBM has scooped a $6.2m (£3.85m) contract to supply the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with an RS/6000 supercomputer. The machine, code-named 'Blackforest', is 20 times more powerful than 'Deep Blue' - the machine that beat Gary Kasparov at chess. It will be used for modelling weather systems, pollution systems and microbursts - sudden down drafts of air that can crash small planes. The machine, based in Boulder, Colorado, replaces a Cray supercomputer. For more information on NCAR see http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/
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