>Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious terr

>Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious territory of climate change policy. It doesn't seem that interesting to me. One of the reasons supercomputers are built in the first place is for studying weather and climate [0]. And "politically contentious" or not, climatology is a reasonable thing for a meteorological office to study. For example, the National Weather Service in the United States does both. Also, the Met Office has been involved in climate research [1] for a long time, so it's hardly "recent." [0]: For example: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0829_050829_supercomputer.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0829_050829_... [1]: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleycentre http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleyc...