ClimatePrediction.net

Climate Prediction is a voluntary computing project for predicting changes in the Earth’s climate over the next 50 years. The project should show how accurate the existing methods of long-term prediction of climate change are, and how strongly variations / inaccuracies in the source data affect their accuracy. The project is carried out by launching hundreds of thousands of slightly different from each other source data of computer models of the Earth's climate using the computer time of ordinary personal computers around the world.

CPDN
Climate Prediction client program shows temperature changes on the planet
Platform	BOINC
Downloadable software	100 MB
The amount of job data downloaded	? MB
The amount of job data sent	? (> 100 MB)
Disk space	700 MB + ~ 190 MB common to all tasks
Used memory	190 MB
Graphical interface	there is
Average job calculation time	100 hours
Deadline	1 year
Ability to use GPU	not

The project involves the universities of Oxford and Reading, the UK Meteorological Center, the Rutherford-Appleton laboratory and the software company Tessella Support Services.

Any person who has a personal computer connected to the Internet can participate in the project.

“We want to explore small changes in the overall model,” said the project coordinator, Dr. Dave Frame of Oxford University. - The only way to do this is to conduct a lot of experiments, check all possible options. That is, to do something that would have taken the supercomputer several thousand years. But by solving it as a distributed task, we can do it much faster. ”