NASA | Climate in a Box

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Climate modeling requires massive computational power. Until recently, that power required room sized machines with daunting technical and logistic requirements. But new advances in computer design, including hardware and software, continue to facilitate a paradigm shift. In an effort to broaden and democratize climate research tools, NASA has begun to facilitate the operation of new desktop sized supercomputers, with the goal of making it substantially easier for more researchers to do meaningful work on vital and essential questions for our world.

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[leejw00t354]

Does it handle crysis okay?

[JonThm]

CC was PR from nuclear power

[Skydancer365]

@TonyUnplugged

Troll!

[blackw21]

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

[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.

[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 ?"

[princeofexcess]

(at least that im aware of)

[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

[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.