The Japanese government plans to use one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to produce forecasts of the weather 30 years from now. The project, scheduled to start next year, will rely on the Earth Simulator, a computer in Japan that can process more than 35 trillion calculations every second.
The Associated Press reported that the project’s annual budget could be about $26-million.
Japanese officials hope that the forecasts could be useful in disaster preparedness, such as by indicating the areas most prone to weather disasters like hurricanes. —Vincent Kiernan
