HPC boffins: Our HOT MODELS will help you cope with DISASTER

What’s the most common and costly type of natural disaster? If you answered "floods and tsunamis” you’d be right on the money. Economic damages caused by large and small flooding events – either caused by storms, storm surges or earthquakes, in the case of tsunamis – are truly massive, running into the billions or tens of …

[Kalmairn]

Such a let-down.

I thought they were going to say they had developed HPCs that could run while flying through the winds of a tornado, or ran on water when flooded.

This is much less interesting.

[danolds]

I agree, that would be pretty cool. Maybe for GTC15? Hmm...I wonder if I could get the GE guys to give me some footage of the the torture tests they put their ruggedized systems through? That might be a substitute for what you wanted to see....

[John Smith 19]

And they don't seem to give a s**t about "The butterfly effect."

Good.