Manchin: North Central West Virginia Entity Set to Get $100 Million High-Performance Computer System
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on September 03, 2024
Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $100,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to General Dynamics Information Technology for NOAA’s newest high-performance computer (HPC) system, called Rhea, in Fairmont, West Virginia. This funding is made possible by Senator Manchin’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.
Rhea will monitor marine life species, weather forecasting and modeling of specific environmental phenomena, such as atmospheric rivers, fire weather, and hurricane intensification using Earth observations. The new computing capacity will also be used for weather and climate model development to improve drought, flood, and wildfire prediction and forecasting.
