climateprediction.net

Also known as CPDN

'climateprediction.net (CPDN') is a volunteer computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models (a large climate ensemble) using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understanding of how models are affected by small changes in the many parameters known to influence the global climate.

Key facts

Distributed computing project.logo: Climateprediction dot net logo.png
Distributed computing project.developer: Oxford University
Distributed computing project.operating system: Cross-platform
Distributed computing project.platform: BOINC
Distributed computing project.license: proprietary
Distributed computing project.status: Active
Distributed computing project.performance: 78.8 TFLOPS
Distributed computing project.active users: 7,516
Distributed computing project.total users: 305,577
Distributed computing project.active hosts: 10,275
Distributed computing project.total hosts: 652,792
Distributed computing project.screenshot

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Article

13 sections

Contents

Aims
The experiments
History
Results to date
Explanation
Piani ''et al.'' (2005)
Use in education
The original model
Visualisations
BBC Climate Change Experiment
See also
References
External links

'climateprediction.net (CPDN) is a volunteer computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models (a large climate ensemble) using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understanding of how models are affected by small changes in the many parameters known to influence the global climate.

The project relies on the BOINC framework where voluntary participants agree to run some processes of the project at the client-side in their personal computers after receiving tasks from the server-side for treatment.