Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Huge Supercomputer To Boost Weather Forecasts
A 140-ton supercomputer that can perform more than 16,000 trillion calculations per second is set to give the UK its most accurate weather forecasts ever. The £97m machine will be fired up at the Met Office next year and will crunch data at a blistering rate using the memory equivalent to 120,000 top-end smartphones. It will be 13 times more powerful than the current system, making it one of the world's fastest high performance computers (HPCs). Met Office's chief executive Rob Varley said the machine would be a "step change", allowing hourly updates and highly detailed forecasts for areas as small as 300m.
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INC News, 28/10/2014
Italian President takes stand in Mafia trial
Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano has testified in a major trial that accuses the state of holding secret talks with the Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s. Among the 10 defendants are Nicola Mancino, who was interior minister at the time, and Salvatore Riina, once Italy’s most powerful mob boss.
Prosecutors are seeking to shed light on a dark period when organised crime targeted the state with assassinations and bombings. They allege senior politicians and police, hoping to stem mounting violence, held talks with mob bosses after anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed by a Mafia bomb in 1992. Euronews’ correspondent in Rome, Sabrina Pisu, said: “It’s the first time ever that the doors of the presidential palace have been opened to prosecutors. The trial of the so-called ‘negotiations between the Italian State and Mafia’ is taking place at the Quirinale Palace, hearing some extraordinary testimony by Giorgio Napolitano. The families of the victims have never stopped demanding the truth be told and justice to be served.”
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INC News, 28/10/2014
ULTIME NOTIZIE dalla Nigeria: rapiti 6 impiegati locali Agip
Agenzia ANSA comunica che quattro poliziotti sono stati uccisi nella regione petrolifera del Delta del Niger, nel sud della Nigeria, da uomini armati arrivati a bordo di fuoristrada e fuggiti portando con sè sei dipendenti della filiale locale della compagnia petrolifera Agip. Lo hanno reso noto le forze dell'ordine, precisando che l'attacco é avvenuto venerdì a Nembe Creek, nello Stato di Bayelsa. I poliziotti uccisi erano di scorta a un battello con a bordo i dipendenti Agip che sono stati sequestrati.
INC News, 28/10/2014, via ANSA AP
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