Futura-science wrote:Among the many projects seeking to harness the combined power of networked computers, the “Climate Change Experiment” initiative could be a milestone.
Presented as “the largest project in the global history of climate forecasting”, the operation is the result of the collaboration of the BBC and climateprediction.net, which had already used distributed computing to develop weather models.
The goal here is to offer internet users who wish, via software to download, to share the computing power of their computer, in order to help scientists in their research on global warming.
Launched less than a week ago, the project seems to be very successful: more than 70 users have already answered the call. An encouraging figure, since the organizers had initially estimated that beyond 000 people, the available computing power would be greater than that of the largest existing computer.
Even if there are already participants in the experiment in almost all the countries of the world, their geographical distribution shows, to date, strong disparities: more than 70% come from Great Britain.
Well now, I just signed up to participate in this great project ...
You can join the team easily, everything is explained on this page http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnb ... d_main.php
It's in English but if you have any difficulties you can ask your questions here ...
The software is very easily configurable and you can leave it only the resources you want ...
In addition, the software performs calculations on climate change forecasts ... and you can see these forecasts live in 3D screensaver ... with the date of the prediction, etc ...
So it plugs you in
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