Brasilian weather-office installs supercomputers

Brasilia 17 April 2001 The Brazilian Inmet (Instituto Nacional de Metereologia) improved its weather report system and expanded its observation focus to the whole Latin America through the implementation of a Cray SVI and an Origin 2400 in operation at the CCMAD (Centro de Computacao Meteorologica de Alto Desempenho) in Brasilia (DF).

The center is responsible for the transmission of data concerning Latin America to the weather report center in Washington. Inmet has 400 stations throughout Brazil and is to install other 50 in 2001. Over the last six years, Inmet invested US$ 20 million in equipment besides the US$4 million contract with Silicon Graphics.

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