After the
benchmark evaluations, HMS selected an SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer
powered by 144 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and 288GB of memory, and
running Novell SUSE(R) Linux(R) Enterprise Server 9. WASHINGTON, The National Hurricane Conference,
the nation's leading forum for education and professional training in
hurricane preparedness, has awarded its prestigious 2005 Outstanding
Achievement Award in Meteorology to Bill Sammler, warning coordination
meteorologist for NOAA 's National Weather Service in Wakefield, Va."
Sammler has been the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Weather
Forecast Office in Wakefield since it opened in 1994.
"Bill Sammler has developed a positive relationship with every local
emergency manager in the tri-state Wakefield region based on the principals of
trust and honesty.

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"Analyzing multi-source data for ultra-short range and short range
prediction, and doing it quickly, has proven extremely compute- and
memory-intensive ," said Andras Horanyi, meteorologist at HMS."
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HMS Selects SGI Altix to Meet Challenges of Ultra Short-Range Forecast Codes
to Protect Lives and Property Throughout Hungary

ATLANTA, 86th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting, With an eye on developing more detailed and complex
models to deliver increasingly accurate short-range weather forecasts, the
Hungarian Meteorological Service (HMS) is investing in a scalable,
high-performance SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer from Silicon Graphics
(OTC: SGID). NOAA, the National Oceanic and
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The award was presented in recognition of his meteorological expertise and
community contribution at the 27th annual National Hurricane Conference on
Thursday, March 24, 2005, in New Orleans, La.gov
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"Our plans
involve moving from our current advanced models to even higher-resolution
models , which prompted the investment in a powerful and scalable parallel
supercomputer to drive our codes . "This represents such a dramatic
increase in our capabilities that it will help all of Hungary stay prepared
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To do this, HMS scientists gather all the observations (hourly surface
measurements, vertical soundings of the atmosphere, radar data, satellite
images and lightning detection data) available at the Carpathian Basin. Intel and
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In recent
months, HMS administrators concluded that their existing computing resources
could not keep up with the escalating demands of ultra short-range and
short-range weather prediction .

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"From Hurricane Fran to Isabel to Gaston, Bill has supported our local
emergency managers and advised our state officials to help prepare and respond
to the seemingly nonstop attacks of tropical storms in our region," said
Michael M.nws.

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proud Bill Sammler is part of the NOAA team. He truly practices the federal-state-local partnership that
we all seek," Cline ended. "He deserves to be
recognized for his contributions with the Distinguished Service Award for
2005.

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The award recognizes exceptional and innovative achievement in any
hurricane-related activity by an individual or organization doing things in a
new or better way that is worthy of emulation by others around the county."
Sammler is a native of southern New Jersey and lives in Prince George
County Virginia. He has a Bachelors of Science in meteorology from Rutgers
University and a Master of Science in meteorology from St. NOAA's
National Weather Service operates the most advanced weather and flood warning
and forecast system in the world, helping to protect lives and property and
enhance the national economy.

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Based in Budapest, HMS oversees a broad range of activities in the field
of numerical weather prediction -- from ultra short-range modeling (up to a
few hours) to climate-range modeling (up to several decades).
"With this new Altix system, we can compute forecasts using our recent
settings in just a few minutes, instead of the hour that we currently need on
our existing hardware," said Horanyi. Louis University.

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NOAA's Bill Sammler Awarded National Hurricane Conference Award for Meteorology

Cline, state coordination of Emergency Management, Virginia
Department of Emergency Management.
"Bill is a fine individual who has demonstrated a sustained , significant
contribution to hurricane preparedness in Virginia, Maryland and North
Carolina for over a decade," said NOAA's Dean Gulezian, director of the
Eastern Region for NOAA's National Weather Service.

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Using this complex forecasting system, HMS can, for instance, warn
residents and businesses all over Hungary (including the popular Lake Balaton
summer resort region) of potentially dangerous weather up to six hours before
its arrival. After extensive benchmarks involving many
competing systems, SGI Altix proved the superior choice. HMS plans to install the system in two
phases: 72 processors and 144GB of memory in February, and the rest of the
configuration by May 2006. With offices
worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety
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HMS embarked on an exhaustive evaluation process prior to making its
selection.
Administrators at HMS evaluated systems from IBM, HP and SGI. The SGI shared-memory
platform so excelled in the benchmark tests that the 144-processor Altix
configuration outperformed competing systems powered by approximately 200
processors and even more memory.S.noaa.noaa.

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The key criterion was price/performance, with performance tests
focused on two codes vital to operations at HMS: ALADIN (a numerical weather
prediction model developed by a broad consortium of European and North-African
countries) and MM5 (the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model).sgi. Such risks and
uncertainties include financial and contractual commitments, the installation
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The new Altix system
offers the capabilities we require for our urgent current needs along with the
headroom to scale as our needs grow over time. "It is always a coveted honor when one of our
employees receives professional recognition for job performance.gov/er/akq/

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