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Climate in a Box

Climate in a Box

Project Overview

NASA's Climate in a Box (CIB) Project is exploring the utility of "desktop" supercomputers in providing a complete, pre-packaged, ready-to-use toolkit of climate research products and on-demand access to a high-performance computing system.

Latest News

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SPoRT's Weather in a Box Systems Arrive
NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center has acquired two high-speed Cray supercomputers to help demonstrate the utility of NASA modeling capabilities and satellite data sets to improve short-term weather forecasts.

Project Status

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Deployed SGI Octane III at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.