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."

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SLASHDOT MYTHS VS. REALITY

[Anonymous Coward]

MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

morons as environmentalists

[Anonymous Coward]

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Computer models

[Badanov]

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.

Gotta love it. Just another way of saying environmental science is the alchemy of the 22nd Century. Another way of saying it is: those models don't work becuase they are based on unscientific factors and a socialist agenda.

Blame is useless

[Wardish]

So many people argue pro and con on the subject of blame. Is mankind to blame for recent changes?

Who cares!

I've no interest in what caused it except in that it may help us in dealing with the changes. If it's mankind's fault, if mankind is a contributing factor, or if it's simply a natural cycle we still don't understand doesn't matter.

What matters is to work on understanding what is happening (if anything, although I think that is rapidly becoming a statistically moot question) and then move on to what may be accomplished to deal with it.

If your in a burning house, it's not a big deal if it was caused by a meltdown of a coffeepot or the built-in smoke detector shorted out. What matters is putting the fire out or getting out of the house.