NOAA’s Next Supercomputer Will Be a Cray-IBM Hybrid System

On Jan. 14, the U.S. upgraded its main weather forecasting model, which subsequently did a very good in predicting the track of last week's East Coast blizzard. It correctly predicted that heavier snows would be east of New York City, even as the official weather forecast -- based on a mix of computer models -- had the city getting buried in two feet of snow.
When it didn't happen, there was some political fallout as officials struggled to explain to residents why they had closed schools and