Distributed Climate Prediction For Linux: Pending

saintp writes "Inspired by earlier discussions about distributed computing initiatives, I emailed the good folks at Climateprediction.net to inquire about a linux client. And, the good news: There will be one. No update yet to their system requirements, but here's what they told me: 'There is certainly a Linux version planned (in fact, already existing), but we are a small team and can only set up the infrastructure to support distributed experiments under one O/S at a time. Running climate models is substantially more ambitious in terms of machine requirements, data generated, security headaches etc than any other distributed computing project we know of, so developing a generic O/S independent client is simply not feasible. As soon as the Windows version is safely launched, the Linux version will be our next priority.' Hopefully, we'll see it sometime in November or December."

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Re:Why?

[MindStalker]

Basically it boiles down to the fact that mallicious users sending false data would completly destroy this project. In Seti, if some mallicious user sends a I have found ET packet, it can easily be checked and confermed (which I believe is automated even) same with all the other distributed systems so far, a user sending back important info is rare enough that it can be checked. While in weather predictions each user will probably be solving a piece of a puzzle so each users will be sending back significant amounts of info not just occasiall rare users. So each user can't be checked. So the checking mechanism has to be done client side, a virtual impossibility if you ask me.