For your interest...

http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/p...r20030912.html

http://www.climateprediction.net/index.php

The climateprediction.net experiment has been developed to allow a
state-of-the-art climate prediction model to be run on home/ school/ work
computers. By getting data from thousands of climate models, we will
generate the world's largest climate prediction experiment.

We want you to run a climate model as a background process on your computer
(similar to the successful SETI@home project). It should not affect any
other tasks you use your computer for. If you choose to download the model,
you will be supplied with your own, unique, version of the model. As the
model runs, you can watch the weather patterns over the globe evolve. The
results are sent back via the internet, and we are developing an interactive
portal to allow you to compare your results with other people's as the
experiment progresses. The Open University will be offering a short course
based on the project, and there will also be opportunities to get schools
involved with the project.

I'm 5% complete so far for my 1st part... on a 1.8Ghz PC and 3 days @ 8hrs a
day...

It's very good and the PC is running @ 100%, but the PC responds instantly
to my requests to do my work as well as the project runs as a low priority
service on Windows.

Simon


"David Bunney" wrote in message
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For your interest...

http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/p...r20030912.html

http://www.climateprediction.net/index.php

The climateprediction.net experiment has been developed to allow a
state-of-the-art climate prediction model to be run on home/ school/ work
computers. By getting data from thousands of climate models, we will
generate the world's largest climate prediction experiment.

We want you to run a climate model as a background process on your
computer
(similar to the successful SETI@home project). It should not affect any
other tasks you use your computer for. If you choose to download the
model,
you will be supplied with your own, unique, version of the model. As the
model runs, you can watch the weather patterns over the globe evolve. The
results are sent back via the internet, and we are developing an
interactive
portal to allow you to compare your results with other people's as the
experiment progresses. The Open University will be offering a short course
based on the project, and there will also be opportunities to get schools
involved with the project.