The future of forecasting
I finally dug up that article about the super computer that is designed to predict a phenomenal amount of variables in an attempt to predict or forecast the future path of the earths climate.
Here are some amazing facts;
NCEP = National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Their computer is not fully up to speed currently. By 2009 it will handle 8.6 trillion calculations -15,000 years work with a hand held calculator -> In one second!
It is in Gaitherburg, Maryland. The computer's name is Blue - (What's up with computers and blue? Wasn't the Chess computer called deep Blue?)
To put the complexity of the real atmosphere into perspective this computer still uses simplified models. Tracking conditions only tens of miles apart.
Check out --> www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/0506
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