Butte supercomputer slashes project times

When the staff of Missoula’s GCS Research Inc. http://www.gcs-research.com/ ran its own computers to model how a forest fire would burn in a specific area using data including weather, fuel characteristics, geography and so on -it took 22 hours to complete.

When the models were run through Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers’ http://www.rmscinc.org/ supercomputer, the output took 10 minutes.

By JO DEE BLACK • Tribune Business Editor

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