Distributed computing runs world’s largest climate change experiment

[Boomer]

I can't wait to sign up for this! (bold face added for emphasis)

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Bleak first results from the world’s largest climate change experiment
http://www.physorg.com/news2831.html

Chief scientist for climateprediction.net, David Stainforth, from Oxford University said: “Our experiment shows that increased levels of greenhouse gases could have a much greater impact on climate than previously thought.”

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The project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, is ongoing and involves more than 95,000 people from 150 countries. Schools, businesses and individuals across the globe can download the free software which incorporates the Met Office’s climate model and runs in the background when their computers lie idle.

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Participants have simulated over four million model years and donated over 8,000 years of computing time, making climateprediction.net easily the world's largest climate modelling experiment, comfortably exceeding the processing capacity of the world's largest supercomputers. This allows the project to explore a wide range of uncertainties, picking up previously unidentified high-impact possibilities.

“Using the technique of distributed computing and the generous support of many thousands of individuals we have been able to carry out an experiment which would otherwise have been impossible,” explained Dr. Andrew Martin of the Oxford e-Science Centre.

[glitch]

1. I love this - volunteered for SETI, thought they should do it for tracking

objects that could impact earth. This is even better. Thanks for posting!

[Spinzonner]

2. Look for a Republican Virus Creator to sabotage it

[NNadir]

3. We are already running the world's largest climate change experiment.

It's not a computer simulation.

[phantom power]

4. And it's not even a good experiment. There's no control.

[NNadir]

5. Good point. I wish there were a control, but there is not. n/t.