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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Subscribe to commentsSteveFeb 15th 2006 2:14PM
"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.
Jordan RunningFeb 15th 2006 2:16PM
Thanks for the heads-up, Steve. I've fixed the post.
DerekFeb 15th 2006 3:14PM
Kinda reminds me of the Firefox logo.... Coincidence? I think not.