Ireland (boh.delete@this.outlook.ie) on January 31, 2017 5:11 pm wrote:
> This is going to be a supercomputing project, unlike the ones
> that we're used to seeing. One has to remember four things.
>
> ______A) Existence of something like a 'nuclear' power supply generation capability.
> ______I.e. 'Power' for things like fabric and interconnection, is different from land-based systems.
>
> ______B) Cooling, in the environments where a supercomputer like this, could be deployed,
> ______could be made extremely efficient.
>
> ______C) The existence of a real 'driving' problem, that demands advance prediction
> ______capabilities - I.e. When is our country going to flood next?
>
> ______D) The British are good at this. They know how to build boats. They've been doing it forever.
>
> One has to put all of that together, and then what they're trying
> to do with Isambard, comes into some sort of focus. All the best.

Am I the only one who finds this to be completely incoherent? Are you really claiming that the point of all this is to put a supercomputer on a boat in order to somehow improved weather predictions over standard weather forecasting models?