NASA | Supercomputing the Climate

Goddard Space Flight Center is the home of a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility called the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) that is capable of running highly complex models to help scientists better understand Earth's climate. This short video introduces the NCCS and takes you behind-the-scenes into the fascinating field of climate modeling. Using supercomputers to process data from satellite observations, these models are used to predict weather and give a picture of how the Earth's systems and climate are changing.



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[YTM]

This Brute Force approach using hyper super computers promises even more accuracy in the predictions. Science in service of mankind!!

[WatchedProductions]

In the future people would look at out supercomputers and say "meh my laptop has much more power than that" :)

[bugstomper]

Why is 'The Weather Network' usually wrong?

Are they using a Commodore VIC-20 instead of NASA Satellites to predict their weather?

[nishbrown]

How do you use the numbers if they're all crunched?
X-P

[Cozzi]

@teemuruskeepaa These is one thing that beats all supercomputers, the Human Brain.

[Cozzi]

@joh04667 However that is only calculations, super computers do not yet posess self conciouss or the ability to interpret speech. They cannot do as they wish because a computer still requires a human to control it. I admit computers can store information more accurately and churn up information much quicker but that is only because WE have programmed that into the computer.

[CosmicElementalZombies]

How many tornadoes/hurricanes have you seen in the past?

[Cozzi]

Is it just me or do the experts sometimes come across as not really understanding their own tecnology. Take the woman at 0:50 for example. I think there is one genius sat in a room somewhere who knows all and gives people these kind of tecnologys and information :)

[Mikes]

Data will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[circusboy]

still the most powerful and accurate instrument and computer on the planet ??? the human brain. these computations are all based on erroneous measurements.

[roidroid]

The narrator's voice is giving me a bit of a tension headache.
He sounds very tense.

[xxxslayerxxx]

@nerblebun (don't think i'm taking you serious lol) super advanced AI would never be able to take over humans because they will be in a controlled evironment, plus we EMP's to take them out if we need to....but now we have invented magnetic invisibility, and that could make it possible to shield a mangetic field....so lets hope AI's never get control over that technology or else it's game over. but that's nothing to worry about until like 50 or 100 years!

[tcpaa]

I was going to say something along the lines of "computers"

[Zubinen]

@DidntKnowWhatToPut1 And a supercomputer will be ten thousand times more powerful than this.

[intrlper]

@DidntKnowWhatToPut1 Bullshit. Home computers are, and will for the foreseeable future be limited by I/O bandwidth. Your current home computer is theoretically faster in terms of instructions performed per second compared to a small supercomputer 15 years ago, sure, but it doesn't even come close to being able to sift through the raw amount of data those computers do.

Supercomputing is about data throughput capacity a lot more than it is about processor speed.

[TheNavalAviator]

And then there's Trump with his Sharpie®. xD

[nomotionmike]

who else is here from Mr. bushes class if ykyk