[phileysmiley]

New Supercomputer to Track Climate Change
By David Worthington, BetaNews
April 15, 2005, 6:47 PM

IBM has announced that the University of Colorado, in cooperation with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has acquired a Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate the ocean, predict the weather and analyze other complex climate phenomena that may affect climate change and cause ripple effects in the global economy.

Now that intergovernmental panels have charged the scientific community with the colossal task of examining the origin behind the accelerating pace of climate change -- whether it be the Earth's organic rhythms, the fingerprint of mankind or both -- scientists are increasingly turning to the most cutting-edge technology.

Scientists at NCAR will use Blue Gene to research and model global climate change, weather prediction, wildfires and geoturbulence, among other major areas of interest.

"Climate change research is one policy-relevant field driving a need for more powerful computers to process complicated models of the Earth system," says NCAR director Tim Killeen. "Improving weather forecasts, predicting toxic pollution flows, and space weather are other areas where faster, more efficient supercomputers like Blue Gene are essential for U.S. scientists to remain in the forefront of Earth science research."

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[Neuromancer]

Very interesting

They cant predict the weather a week in advance but are going to simulate the ocean?

IT will be interesting to see what kind of models it generates and too see how accuratethe can get. chaos theory or not, I think this is something that mankind should be able to get a good understanding of.


Side note: I just read a article about quantum computers will be extremely sensitive to climate changes... and thought that was what this thread was going to be about

[kanaloa]

This is SO my favorite subject