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
