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• NOAA is beefing up its forecasting computers to 5 petaflops

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will increase its computing power by ten-fold this year to a total of 5 petaflops worth of computing ...

• 'Significant' solar flare may affect communications, GPS on Wednesday

  Radiation emission could hit radios, power lines and satellites

• Another major solar flare heads toward Earth

  Fourth significant solar flare in 9 days; it may affect navigation and communications systems Thursday

• Sun emits super-intense flare today

  NASA catches images of two solar flares shooting off the sun

• NOAA flips switch on two new supercomputers for weather forecasting

• NOAA goes 'live' with new weather supercomputers

  Hurricane model forecasting improvements will come immediately, thanks to the new 213 teraflop Linux-based systems