Climate Modeling With Supercomputers

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Climate and weather modeling with supercomputers.

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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NASA's challenging mission to explore space and understand the universe and the Earth within it requires the agency to innovatively apply and extend humankind's most advanced capabilities, technologies, and knowledge. High-end computing is one such powerful leading-edge tool.

The mission of NASA's High-End Computing (HEC) Program is to:

• Plan and provision high-end computing systems and services to support NASA's mission needs. Operate and manage these HEC resources for the benefit of agency users, customers, and stakeholders.
• NASA's HEC resources are relied on as an essential and pervasive partner by the breadth of agency science, engineering, and technology activities, enabling rapid advances in insight and dramatically enhancing mission achievements.

Four top-level HEC Program goals will lead to accomplishing the mission and achieving the vision:

• Provide effective production HEC resources and services to enable pervasive, timely, and significant mission impacts.
• Infuse HEC into NASA's scientific and engineering communities.
• Assure preparedness to meet NASAs future modeling, simulation, and analysis needs.
• Ensure that NASA HEC resources and activities are well-managed and wisely used.

• http://www.hec.nasa.gov/

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Modeling Climate at Warp Speed: Two new NASA technologies have squeezed 10 times more power out of climate-modeling supercomputers.
• http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/02may_supermodel.htm
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[kufr72]

What can that statement mean? No climate models work? At all? In any way? Are you sure?

[waltermh111]

Another layman of the field telling us he knows more about what scientists are thinking or capable of then they themselves show

If you have the inside scoop on the scientists thoughts and research then let us all in on the secrets

But if your going to throw around failures like the deniers trying to use emails to show something thats not there, or other lame and easily debunked decade old arguments and making blanket statements about how climate is too complex for you to understand, spare us

[mphello]

To kyle92223

Then it's impossible for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) deniers and their infinitely simpler mental models, using just natural language, to declare with such absolute arrogant certainty that AGW is NOT happening.

You are full of s&&t. Computers have managed to direct Voyager to pass by multiple planets and moons in our solar system. So, yes - they CAN prove to us that AGW is real and serious.

[kyle92223]

You would need a supercomputer, that could manipulate data as fast the earth does in real time. You are dreaming if you think computer models can solve the climate cycles and predict accurate results. Not happening, sorry star trek fans.....

[VaygrX]

if i were back in time soo long, when the first Computer existed, my computer would be a Ultra computer, even is this computer is shit :D

[TheCaptainLulz]

Download BOINC (Berkley open infrastructure for network computing). you can use your computers spare power to process models from the met office. they take forever, but youre doing the same stuff.

[AtheistKharm]

I was being a bit facetious, poking fun how windows sucks. In fact I use ubuntu karmic for most of my computer use.

[azwan1992]

linux have better data management. like networking, programming, etc.

[AtheistKharm]

nasa's super computers currently run on linux.. hmm wonder why. haha

[DaBossk]

desktop sized super computer....

[70rn]

Yes! Finally a rig capable of running crysis on ultra high with full anti aliasing past 150 FPS!!!!! Thank you NASA!!!!!!!

[philipmach]

A supercomputer of 30 years ago when climate research was in its infancy had less computing power and memory than an entry level cell phone in today's world. Also, as I understand it, the idea is to test your models at lower resolution on desktop hardware before committing to an expensive run on a supercomputer. The movie doesn't make these points clear.