10 Awesome Reasons To Love Supercomputers

From their sheer scale to the multitude of things they can do, there are many reasons to love supercomputers. Here are just ten of them!

4. They can predict the weather

It’s not magic, just science. Credit: Shutterstock.

Does weather forecasting sound suspiciously like fortune-telling, where someone looks into a crystal ball and predicts the future? Well, rest assured that meteorologists depend on something much more reliable than a crystal ball to make weather predictions. All around the world, supercomputers are hard at work processing real-time weather data, monitoring temperature, humidity, wind speed and cloud cover around the world to find weather patterns.

Making sense of all this information for a weather forecast is practically impossible for the human mind, or it could take so long that one might as well look out the window for an answer. For a supercomputer, however, it’s all in a day’s work; maybe less. The next time you get a storm warning and reach for your umbrella, remember that you have a supercomputer to thank for keeping you dry.

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Jeremy received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he studied the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression.

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