Should we have a project OilSlick@Home?

[NeoGen]

I'm sure we could do better than those supercomputer prediction models...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is funded by the US National Science Foundation to do climate modeling, has borrowed some computing capacity at the New Mexico Computer Applications Center and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, loaded up the Parallel Ocean Program (a part of the Community Climate System Model simulation created by NCAR and the US Department of Energy), and dropped some simulated dye in the simulated Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and watched how it disperses over time.

Read the full article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06...oil_slick_sim/

[Lagu]

Where can I read of such project? Or do you plan develop one?

Lagu

[NeoGen]

I wish I could, but it's far beyond my capabilities.

But those guys at the National Center for Atmospheric Research had to use a supercomputer to do the oil slick predictions, they could have made a boinc project for us, I'm sure it would have been cheaper.

[Brucifer]

Might have been cheaper, but it wouldn't have been as fast. But you know with all the "green" stuff nowdays around the planet, if some entity did a boinc project on stuff related to the gulf oil spill I'm sure that it no time at all there would be totally massive participation in it.