Chinese parallel computer for numerical weather forecastHangzou 17 April 2001 China has developed a parallel computer system for a regional numerical weather forecast, which is expected to help improve the accuracy of China's weather forecast. The Shenjian-100 regional numerical weather forecast parallel computer system was positively evaluated by an expert team organized by the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Commission.
The system, developed in Huzhou of east China's Zhejiang Province, has an
operational speed of 25.6 Gflop/s.
A 60-day trial operation of the system at the Huzhou Observatory shows that the
accuracy rate of forecast for rainfall and clear weather within the time period
of 24 hours, 36 hours and 48 hours is more than 90 percent.
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