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If we can build a space station together, why don't we pool our resources with EU to create a larger supercomputer with even greater resolution/accuracy? It se
by jburwell 13y ago
If we can build a space station together, why don't we pool our resources with EU to create a larger supercomputer with even greater resolution/accuracy? It seems like a tremendous duplication effort and delay (until 2015) when we could work together to improve things immediately.
- m_mueller 13y agoWhen it comes to weather models it's probably a good idea to have at least two of them for validation and performance comparisons. These things are (a) quite complex (in the order of 100k-1M LOC), (b) important for humanity for various reasons and (c) not as expensive as you might think. To give you an idea, for the price of one F-22 fighter jet one could go and build the world's best weather prediction, including the price of the supercomputer (as in the world's fastest one) as well as the initial software development.