A super computer took three days to digitally rebuild the whirlwinds that hit the United States at 2011.
In May of 2011, a series of tornadoes hit in all the Midwestern United States. The incident triggered the scientists who wanted to learn how these supercell storms which allow the formation of catastrophic tornadoes.
Lost scientists in the multitude of data and having a great deal of difficulty working with standard methods, used a super computer, what we would call, a supercomputer.
O Leigh Orf at the University of Wisconsin-Madison simulated the storms of 2011 using the Blue Water computer at the University of Illinois and sending nearly two billion small sensors that spread over an area over 75 square miles and climbed 12,4 miles high.
Η speed of the wind, the temperature, η υγρασία, η πίεση και η βροχή του κάθε αισθητήρα υπολογίστηκε χωριστά και κατόπιν όλα μαζί συναρμολογήθηκαν σε ένα ενιαίο εμφανίζοτας όλη την δυναμική του ανεμοστρόβιλου. Η εργασία αυτή διάρκεσε τρεις ημέρες και απαιτήθηκαν 20.000 πυρήνες processingof Blue Waters.
"For the first time, we are able to look into the interior of a supercell storm producing a tornado", says ORF. "We have the complete storm, and we can see everything going on inside."
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