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IBM © says Clayton . That ’ s made possible by an astronomical 12 trillion pieces of forecast information generated daily , producing 1.46 billion individual points around the world .” That sheer volume naturally requires the use of supercomputing , and IBM partners with , among others , the National Center for Atmospheric Research , the University of Washington and
NVIDIA on a GPU-based computing architecture . “ That means a farmer in Kenya can have access to the same quality forecast as a farmer in Kansas . That ’ s a big deal and we ’ re super excited about the impact that will have on people , on businesses , on governments and on trade and efficiency around the world .” Marshalling that data requires innovative approaches that mesh with
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