DC in the news..

[networkman]

LINK

Processing power
From Uruguay to Uzbekistan and Sierra Leone to Singapore, 95,000 people from 150 countries are taking part in the climateprediction.net experiment to explore the possible impact of global warming.

By downloading free software from http://www.climateprediction.net/ on their personal computers, participants run their own unique version of Britain's Met Office climate model.

While their computer is idle, the program runs a climate simulation over days or weeks and automatically reports the results to Oxford University and other collaborating institutions around the world.

Together, the volunteers have simulated more than 4 million model years, donated 8,000 years of computer time and exceeded the processing power of the world's largest supercomputers. The first results of the continuing experiment are reported in the latest edition of the science journal Nature.

 

[Assimilator1]

Cool!
1 of the projects I'd like to try after S@H1

 

[Rattledagger]

Hmm, looks strangely similar to last weeks news...

Ah, here it is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210629.stm

 

[BlackMountainCow]

I really liked CPDN a lot when it first came out. But by now AFAIK you can only downoad the BOINC release and not the classic one anymore. And in addition to that, does it really make sense using thousands of Watts energy to try to find the best prediction for how the climate is gonna be in 50 years and thus actually adding to the whole problem? Why not just start cutting CO² and all that stuff right now.

Just my 2 cents


:beer:

 

[networkman]

The non-BOINC version is still available for download for those having problems with the BOINC client(or who just didn't like it.)

In your account profile, it does default to the BOINC stats, but you can change it to the "Classic" version to crunch non-BOINC.

As for me, I'm moving on to the Einstein@Home project(yes, it's BOINC), for a local Radio-Astronomy group.

 

[amdxborg]

Cool news!

Thanx networkman!

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
I really liked CPDN a lot when it first came out. But by now AFAIK you can only downoad the BOINC release and not the classic one anymore. And in addition to that, does it really make sense using thousands of Watts energy to try to find the best prediction for how the climate is gonna be in 50 years and thus actually adding to the whole problem? Why not just start cutting CO² and all that stuff right now.

Just my 2 cents


:beer:

That's only relevant if you have your PC on purely for DCs sake
Won't add to the CO2 problem if the PC was on anyway ,will it?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Well, but who calls himself a addicted DCer and does not have at least ONE computer running only for the sake of DCs? I mean, most of us have at least 3 or 5 PCs crunching on something 24/7 without any other usage on these dedicated crunchers.

 

[Assimilator1]

Thats true for many of us here ,but probably not in general

And anyway ,yes it does make sense to crunch CPDN even if your very slightly adding to the problem(btw where did you get thousands of watts?) ,it still helps the project doesn't it?