NCAR’s construction on schedule

CHEYENNE – The future home of one of the world’s largest supercomputers is almost complete outside Cheyenne.

Major construction at the National Center for Atmospheric Research-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is wrapping up this August, and crews will start to test the facility’s infrastructure while administrators are set to select the supercomputer that will occupy the site this fall.

The center will allow scientists to run complex computer models and processes to answer questions relating to climate change and weather forecasting, including the formation of hurricanes and tornadoes, and numerous other fields of scientific research.

Officials from NCAR, based in Boulder, the University of Wyoming,…