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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator

Posted by michael on from the first-random-tourist-that-they-had-ever-had dept.

eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."

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  1. Reliability of its predictions by hak+hak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how far in advance things like, say, the climate can be predicted, even by such a powerful computer. It's almost impossible to predict the weather for even a small area (I live in the Netherlands) for more than the coming few days to a week, because it's so sensitive to small errors. (That doesn't mean I'm not impressed by the thing, of course.)