UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world's fastest weather supercomputer

The UK’s weather service, the Met Office, will spend £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) to acquire the world’s most powerful climate supercomputer, the government has announced. That’s over ten times more than its current Cray XC40 cost, but it will d…

Source: Engadget – UK to spend .6 billion on the world’s fastest weather supercomputer