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Staging Sites Enable #AFRICOM to Reach Hot Spots Within Four Hours
▻http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/09/staging-sites-enable-africom-to-reach-hot-spots-within-four-hour.html

Non pas que les militaires Etasuniens aient été particulièrement efficaces dans la lutte contre Ebola,

#Senegal, #Ghana and #Gabon are playing key roles as hosts to so-called cooperative security locations, which function as bare-bones launching pads for quick-reaction troops called upon to secure U.S diplomatic facilities in the broader region,

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The facility in Senegal was recently put to use during the military’s response to the Ebola crisis in western Africa.

#Afrique

Met Office to build £97m supercomputer
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29789208

The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour, rather than every three.

It will be built in Exeter during 2015 and become operational next September.

The Met Office said it would deliver a “step change” in forecast accuracy.

[...] For example, forecasts of wind speeds, fog and snow showers could be delivered for major airports, with a spatial resolution of 300m.

[...] The “Cray XC40” machine will have 480,000 central processing units or CPUs, which is 12 times as many as the current Met Office supercomputer, made by IBM. At 140 tonnes, it will also be three times heavier.

#météo #climat #ordinateurs