Supercomputers Help Decode Space Weather“When a storm goes off on the sun, we can’t really predict the extent of damage that it will cause here on Earth. It is critical that we develop this predictive capability,” says Homa Karimabadi, a space physicist at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the world with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops, to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Researchers-Use-Supercomputer-to-Understand-Solar-Storms-020812.aspx

Supercomputers Help Decode Space Weather

“When a storm goes off on the sun, we can’t really predict the extent of damage that it will cause here on Earth. It is critical that we develop this predictive capability,” says Homa Karimabadi, a space physicist at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the world with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops, to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Researchers-Use-Supercomputer-to-Understand-Solar-Storms-020812.aspx