Climate Modeling With Supercomputers

Climate modeling requires massive computational power. Until recently, that power required room sized machines with daunting technical and logistic requirements. But new advances in computer design, including hardware and software, continue to facilitate a paradigm shift.

In an effort to broaden and democratize climate research tools, NASA has begun to facilitate the operation of new desktop sized supercomputers, with the goal of making it substantially easier for more researchers to do meaningful work on vital and essential questions for our world.

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NASA's challenging mission to explore space and understand the universe and the Earth within it requires the agency to innovatively apply and extend humankind's most advanced capabilities, technologies, and knowledge. High-end computing is one such powerful leading-edge tool.

The mission of NASA's High-End Computing (HEC) Program is to:

• Plan and provision high-end computing systems and services to support NASA's mission needs. Operate and manage these HEC resources for the benefit of agency users, customers, and stakeholders.
• NASA's HEC resources are relied on as an essential and pervasive partner by the breadth of agency science, engineering, and technology activities, enabling rapid advances in insight and dramatically enhancing mission achievements.

Four top-level HEC Program goals will lead to accomplishing the mission and achieving the vision:

• Provide effective production HEC resources and services to enable pervasive, timely, and significant mission impacts.
• Infuse HEC into NASA's scientific and engineering communities.
• Assure preparedness to meet NASAs future modeling, simulation, and analysis needs.
• Ensure that NASA HEC resources and activities are well-managed and wisely used.

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Modeling Climate at Warp Speed: Two new NASA technologies have squeezed 10 times more power out of climate-modeling supercomputers.
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[jebuskryst]

Desktop Super Computer!
I cannot wait until that hits the market.

[theb-er]

This shit is 8 years old! Give me my time back!

[rn]

Yes! Finally a rig capable of running crysis on ultra high with full anti aliasing past 150 Thank you

[eviblackeagle]

Kufr what i mean is that there are so many variables that we just don't know. and what is happening now adays is that we are telling the models what to produce.
we are running the models to prove global warming is happening.

netsoj is correct. the furthest a model can calculate weather is only a few hours to day

[AtheistKharm]

nasa's super computers currently run on linux.. hmm wonder why. haha

[VARUM]

They (USAF) do not use just one. Like i said they bought THOUSANDS of these things and run them in 3-5 hundred clusters. It's a cheap alternative to other hardware.

You're not an XBOX fanboy are you? Your not gonna start trolling me over video games are you? You seem to be developing a reputation on this vid already.

[treeunit]

Scientists don't even bother dealing with Macs.

Win.

[waltermh]

not since they all run on linux right now.

But definitely crysis needs to be ported to linux.

[azwan]

linux have better data management. like networking, programming, etc.

[eviblackeagle]

they work in the sense that they spit something out. but by the ppl who are trying to prove that global warming is happening are also making other assumptions that ppl are not hearing about.


But i should not be saying this here as this vid is to show the power of these computers and not the models themselves. the computers are great but the models really need to be improved.

In my comment i should have specified what i meant.

srry. lol my post is -10

[AtheistKharm]

I was being a bit facetious, poking fun how windows sucks. In fact I use ubuntu karmic for most of my computer use.

[eviblackeagle]

lol i am a bit of a troll. no i love playstation, i think it is great but i would not call it a supercomputer even in large clusters. in my mind it will always be a very good entertainment unit and video-game console

[VARUM]

I believe the USAF bought 2 thousand Playstation 3's for this same purpose. Cheap supercomputers.

[VaygrX]

if i were back in time soo long, when the first Computer existed, my computer would be a Ultra computer, even is this computer is shit :D

[eviblackeagle]

i would not call ps3 super computer. i know it has 7 cores but still it is a console.

[eviblackeagle]

uhh they could not install the hardware, therefore not getting anywork done.

WIN

[eviblackeagle]

i love all of your videos but climate models don't work.