Matroxusers@ClimatePrediction.net

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Well, the Matroxusers team is holding 40th place... but the number of active crunchers in the team seems to have fallen off somewhat since the initial enthusiasm. Tsk tsk naughty naughty

Anyway here's a collection of some news from the project over the last month or so...

17 Dec 03 A little over three months after the public launch of the project, climateprediction.net volunteers successfully completed and returned the 10,000th full run. This is by far the largest full-scale climate model ensemble ever undertaken (by about a factor of 200). Results continue to come back at the rate of more than 600 full runs a week. The team wish to thank everyone who has contributed to the project to date: so far the experiment has gone very well and we hope you'll stick with us into 2004, when we hope to roll out more visualisation and analysis tools to let you make sense of your model.

The science team, led by David Stainforth, have begun analysing the results, and hope to publish a first results paper in early 2004.

29 Dec 03 Over the weekend the experiment clocked up its millionth model year. This means we've managed, in a little over three months, to simulate a million years of the earth's climate.

We've started writing up some of the early experimental findings, and hope to have something ready for publication some time in the first few months of 2004.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far, and I hope you'll stick with us into next year.

Happy modelling folks

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Woohoo! 300 years modelled

Btw, there is a new client (v. 2.2.28) here:

http://www.climateprediction.net/download/cpdn_2_2_28.exe

This will fix any problems you have uploading results if you have installed recent IE security patches, and it also has various other improvements/fixes over the original .23 version...

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Latest news:

28.06.04

We've just passed 30,000 full models returned to us. This is about a thousand times larger than the previous largest climate model ensemble and allows us to investigate the uncertainties in models in a way that has never been attempted before.

With the recent burst of publicity about our THC shutdown experiment, and with the migration of the software to the BOINC architecture, we're hoping for even bigger and better things in the future.

18.06.04

Climateprediction.net will launch a new phase of the experiment next Tuesday. The extra phase will investigate the effect of a slowdown of the oceanic circulation.
Participants will be able to choose between running the old or the new experiment.

Look out for other changes too!

Also see here: http://www.climateprediction.net/sci...ssRelease3.pdf

I, for one, am eagerly awaiting their BOINC client - will start playing around whatever is available on BOINC on my slower machine very shortly I think in anticipation.