Today we write our final post, at least as a part of this class. To date we've contributed 2,268.42 credits towards the climate prediction project. Hearkening back to the purpose of grid computing, this is significant, even when compared with the impressive 48,672,572.62 credits contributed by CCS Lancaster, the primary contributor. To put things into perspective, our contribution thus far represents only 4 credits for every one hundred thousand that they have. However, for most Americans living in a metropolitan area, 25,000 people live within ten miles of home. Thus, just that many contributors in one city could match what was done by a major research effort spanning five countries.
| Work done | |
| climateprediction.net member since | 1 Apr 2008 |
| Total credit | 2,268.42 |
| Recent average credit | 15.32 |
| climateprediction.net Specific Equivalencies | |
| HadSM3 Model-Years | 15.00 |
| HadSM3 Complete (45-year) Runs | 0.33 |
We have contributed 15 model years worth of data through HadSM3.
HadSM3 stands for Hadley Centre coupled model, Slab Model 3. The Hadley Centre, in the United Kingdom, developed a small group of climate modeling programs, each suitable to a specific task. Slab Model 3 is a purposefully less developed model; it treats Earth's oceans as a 'slab', thus its' name. Subtracting oceanic currents and relying on previous oceanic temperature measurements simplifies the model greatly. SM3 is appropriate in certain circumstances.
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