Townsville Bulletin

Super IT grunt for BOM Marriage lasts month

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AN AMERICAN company will build the latest supercompu­ter for the Bureau of Meteorolog­y.

Cray Inc has successful­ly tendered to build BOM’s eighth supercompu­ter since 1988, for $ 77 million. It will come into service by mid- 2016. Environmen­t Minister Greg Hunt said yesterday it will have about 16 times the computing power of the existing model and will greatly improve the BOM’s ability to provide forecasts and weather warnings.

“This will enable the bureau to issue forecasts and warnings more often, and with greater certainty and precision than ever before,” Mr Hunt said. Cray is a super- computing firm that was establishe­d in 1972. GABI Grecko and Geoffrey Edelsten ( pictured) have broken up after little more than a month of marriage.

Grecko has posted a photo of her ringless hand on Instagram, lamenting the split.

“No longer Mrs Edelsten,” she said, adding a broken heart emoticon.

She has also changed her name on Instagram back to Gabi Grecko. The pair wed in Melbourne on June 11. Grecko told her Instagram followers last month she suffered a miscarriag­e after falling in her apartment.

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 ??  ?? SUSPENDED SENTENCE: Jody Viero after her arrest in 2012 and ( below left) with Kynan Devenna, jailed for life last week for the murder of Sarahjane Dower ( below right).
SUSPENDED SENTENCE: Jody Viero after her arrest in 2012 and ( below left) with Kynan Devenna, jailed for life last week for the murder of Sarahjane Dower ( below right).

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