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It's not exactly parallel processing, but the Dark Sky app already does its forecasting calculations on the iPhone: http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-
by nether 11y ago
It's not exactly parallel processing, but the Dark Sky app already does its forecasting calculations on the iPhone: http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/ http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/
> The reason we encode velocity data as an image is so we can pass it off to the GPU on the iPhone and iPad. Both the storm prediction and the smooth animations are calculated on the device itself, rather than the server, and all the magic happens directly on the GPU.
- mrow84 11y agoIn case anyone starts wondering, in the article it says that they're assuming that atmospheric motion is linear, which they justify (reasonably) because they're only looking over short time scales. So, although it is a forecast, it's a pretty simple one ;-).