Climateprediction.com

[Silk75]

Well after the likes of SETI@Home and the Cancer project, now comes climateprediction.com (http://www.climateprediction.com) .

Scheduled to start in August, it features a subtle difference from the existing projects, you'll be collecting data then analysing it for further use down the line rather than analysing precollected data.

You have to be able to run this for 8 months straight at least, there will be at least 20000 people needed to run it, and will be capped at 2,000,000.

There is a BBC feature (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1958000/1958296.stm) on this for your perusal as well.

What do people think??

[wishy]

I'm currently working on developing the client for my new project.
I have a trained monkey for feeding my CD-RW drive, in it's idle time, it shall be running Shakespear@Home distributed monkey project.

[KermitTheFrag]

LOL wishy.

btw, **** the damn climate - they have numerous Cray T3E's working on it.

[Zenith]

I've signed up my interest in it.
It's a damn sight more useful than analysing radio recordings for possible signs of intelligent life elsewhere (there's precious little here on Earth...).

[KermitTheFrag]

Moderation: +4, Insightful

I've decided:-


Not to waste my ISP's bandwidth on downloading data chunks.
Not to decrease kernel responsiveness due to running unnecessary high load tasks.
Not to waste electricity on additional processing when it could be running NOPs.
Not to increase heat due to additional CPU and RAM usage.
Not to contract my computing time out to someone for running an unknown binary.
To check out BBC weather for the weekly forecast :)


call me selfish...

[Cabe]

I'm still running UD, as I believe its a worthwile cause.

[KermitTheFrag]

Originally posted by Cabe
I'm still running UD, as I believe its a worthwile cause.

well it would be if they ran analysis alogrithms than brute forcing the thing :/

[Zenith]

Have you read the literature that goes with the site Kerm? Not just the "what we want to do", but the research papers as well? The method they are going to use is a combination of analysis and brute force.
The brute force is so that they can find the parameters that accurately model the last 50 years of climate change. If they find even one set of parameters that is a close approximation of the past 50 years, then they believe they've got the starting point for the next 50 years.
The analysis is the actual execution of the parameters within the framework of the model. Given that what they are trying to do is find the initial conditions of a chaotic system, they need to test a multiplicity of starting conditions in the hope of finding at least one that compares to the last 50 years of weather.