• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

NOAA Upgrades Supercomputers

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I ran across this story on the NOAA website:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2387.htm

(Well, I originally ran across it on CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/10/weather...r.ap/index.html , but followed through to the NOAA article).

At any rate, I was wondering what improvements we'll see in terms of operational model delivery time (e.g. NAM runtimes, etc.). The article notes an improvement to make room for better physics, etc, to be included in numerical models, which I understand as preparing for the operational use of WRF model runs... Anyone have more specs on this?
 
I guess it depends on which products you are hoping to see. The ETA looks to finish about 20 minutes sooner than last April, so not a big improvement there. You can check the expected completion time (and actual) of your favorite NCEP product here:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/pr...stat/index.html

I would guess they are using the extra computing power to run more parallel jobs rather than finish particular components much faster. The old systems were being run at near 100% capacity, which left no room for problems, such as a compute node going bad. The new system should have improved reliability.

Glen
 
Supercomputers

Sounds like these computers are going to be much more powerful than the old ones! 1.3 trillion calculations per second!! Wonder how this will help with tornado and severe storm forecasting?? :shock:
 
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