Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Myles Allen, Why does climate science needs petaflops?
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Most citizen computing projects can do no wrong. That does not apply to climate science. ClimatePrediction.net raises a few hackles, often in situations such as a recent meeting about investment in supercomputer, and when someone said, “I hear you can do a lot of this on PS3s nowadays?” there was a degree of hostility.
It’s just a way of addressing certain problems. People think of models as being done on a petaFLOP Cray XT-6, but most climate scientists don’t have access to these. They can have access to citizen scientists.
Climate modelling depends on:
- Complexity, e.g. number of processes,
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