BBC Climate Change Experiment

If you missed getting on that SETI thing with Art Bell and company, you have another chance to add your computer to a network of computers set up to perform research! Climateprediction.net, one of the largest distributed computing projects going, has started a new forecast in concert with the BBC. As before, users download code that runs in the background, allowing thousands of computers around the Internet to process parts of the whole project. In this new effort, climateprediction.net is looking at the changes to come over the next 75 years, but this time its model -- based on the climate and weather forecasting code used by the BBC -- includes a "fully dynamic ocean," allowing for a more complex interaction between the atmosphere and the seas... [more: World Changing]

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