Use your COMPUTING POWER
Two heads (or in this case tens of thousands) are better than one.
Some problems are so complicated that it is difficult to find enough computer power to solve them. To get over this, a mechanism has been developed for harnessing together the unused computing capacity of PCs all over the world so that they can work together.
One very complicated problem is predicting climate change. The climateprediction.net project is using over 95,000 computers in 150 countries. They work together to investigate how sensitive the different climate change models are to small changes in the underlying assumptions that have been used to create them, and also to changes in climatic conditions.
Join in, link up your computer, and...
...help predict the future
Take Action
Link your computer to the 95,000 others around the world that are already working on the climateprediction.net project.
To run a simulation will take between 10 and 22 days, depending on your computer power. If you switch your computer off and then back on again, the simulation will continue from where it was left off until the task has been completed.
Decide to join in. It's not a huge decision to make. You are not using your computer up to its full capacity. If you want to use your employers' computer, get their permission.
What to do
Check whether your computer meets the minimum requirements. It it's less than 5 years old, it probably will. The operating system can be Windows, Mac or Linux.
Go to climateprediction.net, which should answer any questions you might have.
Register and accept the license agreement.
Run the programme; and the results will be sent back automatically to climateprediction.net
Find Out More
Climateprediction.net is the world's largest climate modelling experiment. It will provide decision makers with a much better scientific basis for creating policies to address global warming.
Each simulation divides the globe into thousands of sectors, and estimates the future temperature, based on certain assumptions such as cloud coverage, the rate of heat movement and rainfall rates.
The first results of climateprediction.net suggest that average temperatures could rise by as much as 11ºC by the middle of the 21st century unless deep cuts are made to greenhouse gas emissions. This is double the warming predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Are you concerned about global warming? Would you like to join in a project which is helping predict Climate Change?
You can link your computer to 95,000 others around the world, to add a bit of extra computing power to this vast network which is working on the problem.
You won't even notice it. Go to www.climateprediction.net and find out what you have to do.
