{"id":289,"date":"2003-09-12T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T11:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=289"},"modified":"2003-09-12T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T11:09:38","slug":"distributed-weather-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Distributed weather stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>B<\/span>ored with your SETI online screensaver? Try a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/3100024.stm\">climate model<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n<p>Via the BBC, a collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Reading, the Met Office, the Open University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and  Tessella Support Services, resulted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateprediction.net\/index.php\">new &#8216;distributed&#8217; project<\/a>. Users over the world are asked to download a program which runs in the background, simulating future weather patterns. Results of each single download are sent back to the organisers.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Currently there&#8217;s only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateprediction.net\/download\/index.php\">Windows version<\/a>, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateprediction.net\/rostra\/news.php?r=1&#038;t=2&#038;id=19\">Linux version<\/a> is on its way.  You need a faster than 800MHz computer, though:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The software will run on slower machines but to make progress towards a public release we need faster machines for testing: A 1.4 GHz machine will take about 6 weeks if it is left running all the time. An 800MHz machine will take almost take twice as long. A 2.8GHz machine under 4 weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bored with your SETI online screensaver? Try a climate model! Via the BBC, a collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Reading, the Met Office, the Open University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Tessella Support Services, resulted in a new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}