IBM To Supply Atmospheric Research Super Computer In Cheyenne

The $100 million supercomputer currently being built in Cheyenne will hopefully become operational in the summer of 2012. Construction of the supercomputer began just over a year ago and is considered as one of the world's most powerful climate research supercomputers. The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO announced that IBM has won a bid to supply the super computer.

IBM which is based out of New York will install a number of critical components to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The critical component installation is for a new system named Yellowstone.

The Yellowstone system should arrive at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne some time next year and will become operational by summer. The state of the art atmospheric research supercomputer will offer scientists a wide range of research capabilities including weather, climate, oceanography, air pollution, space weather, computational science, energy production as well as carbon sequestration.

Information courtesy of Associated Press of Wyoming.