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Environment Canada, always at the cutting edge of Canadian computing, recently celebrated the first anniversary of its latest supercomputer acquisition. Standing in the heart of the "beast," Jean-Guy Desmarais, with the National Metrological Service of Canada, said its new supercomputer is helping increase the accuracy of weather forecasts.

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