www.climateprediction.net

Happy Valentine's Day to all. :)

Have not blogged in a while. Kind of lost momentum but will should pick it up soon.

Meanwhile came across this interesting project by BBC. climateprediction.net. Climate prediction is still a vague and imprecise business and this may change with this venture. Home users can now download a simlulator available, set the parameters and let the program run in the background while the computer is switched on.

The project's chief scientist, David Stainforth from Oxford University, commented that this current model (first model was launched 2 years ago) is more accurate as it incorporates a fully dynamic ocean, which is one huge variable in climate prediction.

This is an another example of distributed computing. A more familiar example will be by Seti where several million people downloaded data to sift for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

For a more extensive writeup, read BBC links to huge climate project

Download the software at Climateprediction.net