Met Office To Spaff £1.2bn On New Computer

[teslacoils]

Met Office and Microsoft to build climate supercomputer

The Met Office will work with Microsoft on a supercomputer which will help model climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm looking forward to the forecast being much less crap then.

 

[Wombat]

Hahah it will still struggle to say what it did yesterday

 

[Jerry]

They can’t get the weather right in Exeter where they are based.

They’d do better if they looked out the window!

 

[Muddyroads]

They can’t get the weather right in Exeter where they are based.

They’d do better if they looked out the window!

Evidently they didn’t put windows in when they built it!

 

[jondear]

Hahah it will still struggle to say what it did yesterday

That's the easy bit any idiot can do past cast!

 

[Muddyroads]

They’d do better with a piece of magic string.

 

[teslacoils]

Apparently they didn’t put windows in when they built it!

Because that would allow them to see the wood Infront of the trees.

 

[DrWazzock]

You could build 5000 x 10 million gallon reservoirs for £3.2 billion. Enough to irrigate 1 million acres with 2” of water annually and reduce winter flooding risk to downstream towns.
That’s just using typical cost to farmer to build a reservoir. If you rolled it out nationally at scale you could reduce the costs further. There would also be opportunities for hydroelectric generation in hilly areas.
This really is a very screwed up country.

 

[teslacoils]

No IT procurement then though is there. Think of the handshakes and hospitality here. And lovely vat to pay.

 

[DrWazzock]

Leading us down into the pit.

 

[DrWazzock]

Yeah and I forgot if you can’t do it sat on your arse in front of a screen it isn’t worthy of consideration nowadays.

 

[GeorgeK]

Overcast with sunny spells. Chance of showers.
£1.2 billion please, no cheques

 

[hollister]

Didn't they do the same a couple of years ago?

 

[teslacoils]

2014 they got the best computer for £97m. Up and running in 2015. New one on the cards in 2020. So thats £20m a year. This one ought last a while then. Suspect it's because they need to move to Windows 10....

 

[Netherfield]

Is that a fixed price, or will it be like most Gov computer jobs and end up above double, and still not work properly.

 

[teslacoils]

Lol. As with all jobs, it will be a "string it out and charge quadruple for any spec changes along the way".

 

[Bramble]

Hope the computer can make it rain when we want/sun when we want for that kind of

 

[PSQ]

I look forward to seeing the old computer on Ebay, it should crunch the VAT return in no time...

 

[melted welly]

So not enough money to support combat veterans, but £1.2bn for a weather computer which will be approx 15 to 30% accurate going on current performance..

what’s the point? as far as I can see, there 2 industries directly affected by the weather - agri and fishing, and govt doesn’t give 2 fecks about either, so this is a massive waste of money if it’s just to let people know what time to walk the dog or if they’ll need a coat at the football.

 

[Steevo]

So not enough money to support combat veterans, but £1.2bn for a weather computer which will be approx 15 to 30% accurate going on current performance..

what’s the point? as far as I can see, there 2 industries directly affected by the weather - agri and fishing, and govt doesn’t give 2 fecks about either, so this is a massive waste of money if it’s just to let people know what time to walk the dog or if they’ll need a coat at the football.

They probably sell the weather data to companies like supermarkets to help them forecast when to sell BBQ food or ice cream.