When did IBM start the Deep Thunder project?
Deep Thunder is an outgrowth of a collaboration between Mr. Christidis and Mr. Treinish and the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, Ga., for the purpose of supporting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. That early system achieved high accuracy and reliability in its weather forecasts. We afterwards continued some of the activities, looking mostly at general forecasting, but only as a small part of our other activities in our separate departments. As the technology improved and become more practical, we started to consider other potential applications. When the Deep Computing began at IBM Research, it made sense to make a formal project of Deep Thunder. Therefore, a weather modeling project was started within the Mathematical Sciences Department in 2000. Mr. Christidis and Mr. Treinish moved to that department. Later in the year, Tony Praino joined us.
It is an outgrowth of a collaboration that Zaphiris and Lloyd had with the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA for support of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, where it achieved a high level of accuracy and reliability in its weather forecasts. We continued some of the activities after that looking mostly at general forecasting, but only as a small part of our other activities that we were pursuing in our separate departments. As the technology improved and become more practical, we started to consider other potential applications. When the initiative in Deep Computing began at IBM Research, it made sense to start a more formal effort. Therefore, a weather modelling project was started within the Mathematical Sciences Department in 2000. Zaphiris and Lloyd moved to that department. Later in the year, Tony Praino joined us. Given that one focus of the project is in high-performance computing, it moved to Deep Computing Systems Department in late 2004.
Deep Thunder is an outgrowth of a collaboration between Mr. Christidis and Mr. Treinish and the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, Ga., for the purpose of supporting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. That early system achieved high accuracy and reliability in its weather forecasts. We afterwards continued some of the activities, looking mostly at general forecasting, but only as a small part of our other activities in our separate departments. As the technology improved and become more practical, we started to consider other potential applications. When the Deep Computing began at IBM Research, it made sense to make a formal project of Deep Thunder. Therefore, a weather modeling project was started within the Mathematical Sciences Department in 2000. Mr. Christidis and Mr. Treinish moved to that department. Later in the year, Tony Praino joined us. Because one focus of Deep Thunder is on high-performance computing, Deep Thunder moved to the Deep Computing System
