Climate Change

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ("BOINC") put distributed computing to use again for studying climate change in the summer of 2004. The first project employed by the Berkeley system was the project to Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and has been used for several other problems that require vast computing resources. The latest, climatepredition.net, is an Oxford University application simulating climate change from 1920 to 2080. There are about 12 participating institutions and about 95,000 users from 139 countries are currently participating. Climateprediction.net has descriptions of the experiments users will be running, as well as initial results, information about classes and user forums.