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BBC launches distributed climate prediction project

by Jordan Running on February 15, 2006 at 12:25 PM

The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your computer's spare processor cycles to perform calculations. The software needed to participate is ~~only available for Windows~~ available for Windows and Linux and the results of the experiment will be shown on BBC Four in May.

Tags: bbc, climate, climate change, distributed computing, global warming, weather

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SteveFeb 15th 2006 2:14PM

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"The software needed to participate is, oddly, only available for Windows"

This isn't true, there's also a Linux version made available - on the download page beneath the "Download" button, a small link is labelled "For Linux". I presume this was a design choice taken so that less technical persons using Windows wouldn't be confused.

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Jordan RunningFeb 15th 2006 2:16PM

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Thanks for the heads-up, Steve. I've fixed the post.

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DerekFeb 15th 2006 3:14PM

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Kinda reminds me of the Firefox logo.... Coincidence? I think not.

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