1. Industrial, Technical and Scientific uses of Computers By Daniel and Luke

2. Forecasting the Weather Large Amounts of Data Collected from Around the Globe Data Is Processed. Requires a lot of Processing Power. A Prediction is then made by Computer.

3. Super Computers for Weather – Met Office 23,000 Trillion Calculations per Second (Average Desktop = 2.8 Billion calculations) 480,000 Computational Cores (Average Desktop = 4 cores) 2 Million Gigabytes of Ram (Average Desktop = 4Gb) 17 Million Gigabytes of Storage (Average Desktop = 1,000Gb)

4. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Change Part of Drawing Copy and Paste Libraries of Components Macros Zooming for Fine Detail Mathematical Operations

5. CAD Examples Crocodile Clips/Livewire – Used to Design Electrical Circuits Visual Studio – Used to create.NET Programs. Graphics Tablet – Easy Drawing on Computer 3D Modelling – Used for 3D Printing (e.g. Blender, C4D and Autodesk)

6. Super Computing for Science - CERN Named the: World Wide LHC Computing Grid Over 100,000 Computer Processing Cores 45 PB of Hard Disk Storage (That’s 45,000 Terabytes) Processes over 1 PB of data a Day. (Making 6000 Database Changes a Second) Internet Speed 10 GBps (533x Faster than Home Fibre Internet)

7. Activity 1. How many Processing Cores did the Met Office Computer have? 2. Why is a Super Computer required for Forecasting the Weather? 3. Name a Computer-Aided Design Program. 4. Name one feature of a CAD Program.