Subject: Linux gives you your weather reports?
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 16:39:21 AKDT
Predicting the weather with Linux at the National Weather Service
Norbert Cartagena January 28, 2003
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/27/2324236.shtml?tid=4
The Service expects to convert their offices and research centers to
Linux over the next three to seven years, possibly as soon as the end of
2005, depending on their budget. This includes over 2,000 systems in
approximately 140 geographically dispersed locations across the United
States and its territories, including all 122 forecasting offices, 13
river forecasting centers and 4 National Centers for Environmental
Prediction (NCEP).
... the NWS has seen decreases in cost even as they increase their
computing performance, ...
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