And Convex Computer Corp reports that the federally-funded Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum in Hamburg, Germany, has ordered a C3840 supercomputer for research into the earth’s climate: the Convex machine will be integrated into a currently Cray Research Inc-dominated environment to increase the installed processing power and define and develop new research applications; the C3840 was chosen for its storage capacity – it has 4Gb of physical memory – and climate studies can range over decades to centuries.