EDITORIAL: Supercomputer is valuable asset for Montana

Wednesday marked the first show-and-tell day for "Big Sky," Montana’s biggest and fastest computer http://www.rmscinc.org/ , now humming away inside Butte’s Thornton Building on Broadway.

Small businesses and university departments both locally and around the state are tapping its power with great success. Computing that once took days, even weeks, can be accomplished in mere hours on this machine.

For example, Montana State University’s computer science department is developing software that simulates ecosystems such as water flow in an entire river basin. The model shows how changes in climate or impacts from potential development would affect the river system.

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