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Earth Simulator Now Predicting Hurricanes?
GeoGreg writes "The BBC is reporting that the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer is producing results showing that it is possible to model climate down to the level of severe weather events such as hurricanes. This computer has been discussed on Slashdot previously, and it sounds like at least some of the hype around this beastie was justified."
Can It predict where to put the butterfly to stop them ?
I'm still waiting for a supercomputer that can create hurricanes. Who cares about predicting them when you can't do anything to stop them? I envision a future where we stop hurricanes by throwing other hurricanes at them, and nations conduct large scale wars by throwing hurricanes at each other.
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I'll be able to choose between skirts or pants more precisely!
Next step: Breed spherical cow.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
include itself in the model?
Surely the heat generated by the system will disrupt the real world much more than the butterfly which'll make the model useless unless it includes itself in the model.
Heh circular reasoning until you disappear up your own fundament!
Well I, for one, would welcome some grammar nazi overlords, just to deal with a certain person's posts.
Eventually this supercomputer will be able to model climate down to the level of 42.
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I had no idea how much more powerful NEC's EarthSim was than the the "next best thing" was, as far as supercomputers go, but check Top500.org's current list (to be updated in November) out: NEC ES runs, at max, almost three times (!) the G-flops as the next runner-up. I always figured the supercomputer races would be like Cedar Pointe and their roller coasters... you know, somebody builds a bigger or faster one, so you build another that edges them out by just enough to reclaim the title. I had no idea NEC decided to take the "largest computational genitals, period" crown with such authority.
"They show that, for the first time, our climate models can be run at resolutions capable of ...
I have always heard that the flapping of a butterfly here can cause a storm in China ....
Just wondering whether someday the resolution will be so good that out of the millions of butterflies flapping, they will be able to track down that culprit whose flapping caused the storm in china ...
because if they can do it, you won't find me posting to slashdot, but on the run trying to kill that damn butterfly before I am blamed for it all ... The TIA and CAPPS goons shoot horses, don't they ... or is it people that they shoot ...
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
"I am surprised that they don't model nuclear blasts on them, because it certainly CAN."
The one in Los Alamos does that, while the Japanese one predicts weather. It's something of a common joke that the japanese are using world's fastest supercomputer to improve the environment, while the americans are using the world's second-fastest supercomputer to design bigger nuclear weapons.
I think you mean they can predict 'typhoons'. Japanese don't care about hurricanes. If anything they want the US to have more of them so that Japan looks good.
I can get back to you on that grammar nazi thing once I actually wake up; my alarm just went off about 10 minutes ago. But, I see what you mean :-)
SimEarth.
Lucky Bastards.