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Distributed Computing and Climate Change
GraWil writes "The BBC are reporting the launch of climateprediction.net. The aim of the project is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models which frequently give rise to inconclusive predictions. More info on the current state of climate modeling is given by the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which highlights the need to quantify uncertainties of climate projections. So now, in addition to finding ET or curing cancer, your PC can now contribute to our understanding of climate change."
I submitted this yesterday, but, whatever.
They claim it doesn't affect your own power - obviously it does - otherwise what are they gaining from it?
Comment: Yes I realise the username 'fuckfuck101' makes me sound intelligent, no you cannot buy it from me.
I'm not really sure what this has to do with climate prediction...lol.
however, I know you're fully aware that it says "total hostname and active sites," not webservers. The reason for that is that squatters (and that's all the increase is) tend to be MS kids - probably because squatting doesn't fit the OS community too well.
but I'm just a zombie due to it being 9am and me just getting home...you're just trolling and won't ever see this. lol
I think half of their servers are slashdotted. I've downloaded okay, registered okay (even though it said I didn't) but my machine does not want to believe I've registered.
:-( (obligatory ST:V quote here)
I've tried 9 times now, and the webpage thinks that my machine is 9 of the same name
I don't think they anticipated the load...
During all of this, the "check you can connect to our servers" test has been running fine.
When China, India, Brazil, and other such "developing" countries are held to the same standards that America and other "developed" coutries are supposed to be held to by the Kyoto Treaty, when the pretentious Europeans actually meet those standards themselves, and when the environmentalists figure out that nuclear power would do wonders for reducing CO2 emissions (not to mention sulfer, etc), then maybe I'll believe that the climate change activists are serious and not just out to throw a millstone around America's neck. Meanwhile, I'll note that climate change has been happening for all of recorded history and will continue to happen regardless of anything humans do.
Wake me up when they come up with a mathematical model that you can feed data up to 30 years old to and have it predict what temperatures actually are today and the past few years. AFAIK no one has ever been able to do that.