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Distributed Computing World Climate Simulation
Burnt Offerings writes: "The BBC reports that scientists at climateprediction.com are nearing the completion and public release in late summer of a distributed computing project that simulates the world's climate from 1950-2050 AD. It seems that each user's simulation will have different initial conditions built into their runtime simulation and a single completed simulation from 1950-2050 AD takes on average eight-months (Doh!), assuming average household computing power. The results will be sent back to the project's team, where they will select the models that resulted in the 'real' climate patterns that have occured since 1950-2000. I presume they will then use these validated models to help extrapolate the world's climate from 2000-2050. Pretty cool (or should I say warm? or hot?)."
Is anyone starting to get the feeling that the distributed rc5-64 challenge is flawed? It is near 80% complete and I strongly suspect that the keyspace will be exhausted with no solution found. I belive that their search algorithm is flawed and that it has missed finding the key.
At the time I began this post, there 6 comments. They were as follows:
canadian fp eh! (Score:-1, Troll)
This was an interesting post. I am not sure what "fp" entails, but It is my understanding that the remainder of this post is a reference to the delicious Canadian stereotype emodies in the hilarious flick "Strange Brew". For some reason, it received a "troll" rating.
COMMON SLASHDOT MYTHS (Score:-1)
This post had no chance. It started out as a (-1) due to the posters uncouth coment history. Regardless of that fact, it is very informative, as it points to financial graphs and provides insightful commentary.
This is a subject (Score:-1, Troll)
This person was questing to gain the elusive "first post", but was beaten by two other posters to the punch, so to speak. Now that I think about it, perhaps the "fp" from the first comment was an attempt to post quicker than anyone else and thus gain the "first post". It was a success, I believe. Regardless, I'm not certain that this poster deserved to be lambasted as a troll for his (perhaps over)zealousness
I love GOATS YEAH YEAH (Score:-1, Troll)
This post defies analysis, but I feel it would be much better served with a (-1 Offtopic) or a (1, Interesting) tag.
Hm. It seems that either the tag of "Troll" is thrown around too casually or there are a lot of trolls here. I am intriqued by this concept and must continue to study it.
Last frost
Well, I wouldn't say that Microsoft produces exclusively fine software (2000 and XP are decent, but IMHO Office is a bloated confusing time-wasting piece of trash that is only popular because everyone else uses it and is used to it's annoying quirks, like autoformatting stuff without asking or allowing me to easily fix the stuff it formatted wrong). Similarly, not all -1 posts are funny or insightful.
Other than those, you're basically correct. Wildly offtopic though.
I agree with this post.
In fact I'll go further: slahsdot sucks
Tnakyou for reading this
Speaking of boring childish -1 posts, scroll down a couple of comments for a prime example (the guy with the unhealthy interest in goatse.cx and poor ASCII art)
a beowulf cluster of these
just kidding
ha ha ha
bye bye
Wasn't there a 'bsd is dying' troll not too long ago? What is this i updated....
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Earth's future. The hand
writing is on the wall: *Earth faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for *Earth because *Earth is dying. Things are
looking very bad for *Earth. As many of us are already aware, *Earth
continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of
blood. FreeEarth is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of
its core developers.
.... You get the idea
Yeah, and I can't stand it when the Anti-DMCAists say "This person is being sued for something that should be allowed" and think that is proof of the DMCA being bad. People get sued frivolously. Get used to it!
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
--Henry Kissinger