Craig Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Here is something for all of you to get involved in. The BBC this week launched their Climate Change Prediction Experiment. While the experiment itself is a tongue twister to say out loud, participating couldn’t be easier. Just head over to the BBC website and download the installer. From there you can sit back and relax, while the programme uses your spare resources to calculate world climate change.Your computer will be calculating variables such as temperature, cloud cover and snow fall. At the same time it includes a nifty screen saver that will show the progress of the experiment. The BBC predicts that a “fast machine under normal use” will complete their part of the project in 3-4 months.The Climate Change Experiment was designed by a team at Oxford University, the idea is to reduce the need for supercomputers, which are expensive to run, and would need to be hired out for months to complete this experiment. By everyone joining in and sharing their resources it is possible to recreate the idea of a supercomputer by linking PCs around the world.The programme is specially designed not to slow down your computer when you are using it, it is set as low priority and launches itself after other windows programmes have loaded. When you are away from your computer it will increase its needs, and then return to normal when you return, ensuring that you don’t loose out performance wise.Just 10,000 people are needed to sign up for the project to be completed faster than a supercomputer, so join in and help scientists understand global warming.News Source : Neowin.netClimate Change Home PageInstaller : WindowsInstaller : LinuxJust downloaded and been running it for an hour, 0.05% complete :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Had a go at folding, but wasn't happy with the computer running 24/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 do we need anymore evidence ..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I am on 2GB capped broadband and use about 1.8GB.I suspect this might tip me any many others over the limits allowed.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I am on 2GB capped broadband and use about 1.8GB.I suspect this might tip me any many others over the limits allowed.Thos.Very good point there, Thos. There are lots of people on quite low capped services and things like this could easily push them over the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 It's not supposed to use the internet, apart from the download and I suppose the upload at the end in my case 21/1/07. It doesn't need to run 24/7 and it only runs when you are not using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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