NASA | Climate in a Box

[JonThm]

CC was PR from nuclear power

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Good video... didn't know about this :D

[TonyUnplugged]

Don't let Michael Mann add any data to NASA's climate research. The "hockey stick" has been proven wrong by two Canadiens who asked "Why ?"

[Skydancer365]

@TonyUnplugged

Troll!

[maga51100]

good video thx =)

[shue3303]

think it's wasteful, all that effort and unless it's on a grid I bet all that horse power would be sitting idle a vast majority of the time. I don't think this a green solution. It's a toy for the more established employees.

[samipso]

That's the whole point of the project. NASA couldn't care less about the users. They want data coming in from other scientists. For free.

[shue3303]

how many cores does each one have? what type of cpu? I wonder how they adequately cool them, power consumption would be fairly large, plus wonder how noisy they are.

theft would be something to think about also, you could role one of these babies right out the door when no ones looking, they seem to have their own set of wheels. How convenient.

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[Fisku84]

NASA rules

[survivor303]

okey give me these old supercomputers.. nasa dosnt needed them anymore =)

[kmichaelaye]

oh, look, seems like senoctar has some 'need-to-reinvent-the-wheel' problems.. ;)

[princeofexcess]

linux for the win... doesnt crash is open source and its free... i still own a windows though :( since most applications are already written for it. Windows core should be available so other companies systems could run windows programs but no it has to be a monopoly... grrrr... and errors are killing me

[samipso]

Linux is the cheaper solution for applications like this. Open source is cheaper in every aspect. Which is why many governments around the world use it for most of their things.

Windows is just a ripoff and a IT disaster.

[princeofexcess]

its not only cheaper. Its safer its faster and its better. The only problem is no programs for it. Who needs an os if he cant use anything on it. :/

thats why MS is a monopoly because noone can make an OS that can run windows programs (especially games) so companies are forced to make programs for windows because they will get most buyers from that. And there is more programs for windows and the vicious cycle continues.

[samipso]

But you don't need windows programs for science. Scientists make their own applications. I don't know what the odds are between windows and linux for science use, but i can imagine linux being popular.

Besides, i don't see the problem. Most programs have a counter part on other OS's. Windows just has more.

[princeofexcess]

yupp thats why linux is used when reliability is needed. (its the most popular system on supercomputers linux that is ) Im just sad its not used overall. We could get a better operating system for free and it wouldnt crash like my windows. Windows controls the market through legal actions product binding and overall bribery. Its the only legal monopoly that isnt own by Government and still exists

[princeofexcess]

(at least that im aware of)

[noelan2]

Its a pc :P

[estefanello]

how about put this computer to run DNA, RNA and protein folding? It could be very usefull!

[chinito0604]

hm the university of antwerp also developed a super computer (FASTRA II) for only 6000euro is it the same one?

[veers0r]

Is it based on gpus? That would probably be a good idea... But I guess they don't run fortran.

[int3rl0per]

The machine in question is basically a desktop computer with a bunch of nVidia Quadro GPUs thrown in.

[int3rl0per]

Correction. nVidia Tesla processors. Based on the Quadro designs, but without dedicated video hardware, they're pure parallell number crunching units.

[veers0r]

I didn't know that there was fortran support for cuda comming. Not that I fell like writing fortran but I guess it's great for existing codebases,

[int3rl0per]

I seem to remember you can mix C and Fortran quite easily; you'd need to write a few interface routines, but apart from that, there should be nothing stopping people from using Cuda with their Fortran programs.

[senoctar]

hey, it's grandpa fortran 90

looks like NASA has quite some legacy code problems

[blackw21]

I don't thinks it a problem. There is just no need to use high level languages for numeric computation on this scale.

[redzor812]

i still think its soo stupid that people are still using fortran even though f90 is the new standard etc, no one really uses it tbh!

[beanNronin]

Except for people running supercomputer models that require gazillions of computations. Go back to your business apps, junior, and get off my lawn!

[redzor812]

ermm.. i write compilers

[beanNronin]

gee, that was my first job programming. I worked up from there.

[blackw21]

NASA and other scientists use Fortran partly because its legacy code but also because it was the only thing that could run on across different super-computing architectures and memory configurations. Also you do not need a high level languages to do numeric simulations so there is no need to put the effort into rewriting old code. For the post-processing of the model output data (which is usually all the public sees) you can use whatever you want.

[unou12die]

this makes me happy. ::smiles::

[fallingstarblues]

Linux for the win!

[leejw00t354]

Does it handle crysis okay?

[Chrisjr2007]

As computer becomes more smaller.Supercomputers too wll become smaller. ;D

[VultureCulture2000X]

140 Watt CPU load @ 1:48

good bye power saving