HIGH POWERED COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY COULD INCREASE ATC SAFETY
July 1st, 2013
AIRPORTS and air traffic controllers could soon use data generated from supercomputers to solve many of their safety and capacity challenges.High performance computing (HPC), which makes billions of calculations per second, is already being used by the aviation sector for forecasting weather and in designing aircraft – notably for engines, said Alastair McKinstry, environmental sciences activity leader at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC). And researchers are identifying more uses at airports and ATC: "More and more people are beginning to realise ...
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