Germany Unveils World’s Largest Weather Supercomputer

Germany has unveiled the world’s most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Weighing in at 35 tonnes and using 50 kilometres of cables, the supercomputer named Blizzard is capable of 158 teraflops, or 158 trillion calculations, per second