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| Developer(s) | Oxford University |
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| Initial release | September 12, 2003 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | BOINC |
| License | proprietary[1] |
| Average performance | 78.8 TFLOPS[2] |
| Active users | 7,516 |
| Total users | 305,577[2] |
| Active hosts | 10,275[2] |
| Total hosts | 652,792[2] |
| Website | www |
climateprediction.net (CPDN) is a volunteer computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models (a large climate ensemble) using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understanding of how models are affected by small changes in the many parameters known to influence the global climate.[3]
The project relies on the BOINC framework where voluntary participants agree to run some processes of the project at the client-side in their personal computers after receiving tasks from the server-side for treatment.
CPDN, which is run primarily by Oxford University in England, has harnessed more computing power and generated more data than any other climate modelling project.[4] It has produced over 100 million model years of data so far.[5] As of June 2016[update], there are more than 12,000 active participants from 223 countries with a total BOINC credit of more than 27 billion, reporting about 55 teraflops (55 trillion operations per second) of processing power.[6]
- ^ "Licence agreement". www.climateprediction.net. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ^ a b c d "Project status". Climateprediction. 29 January 2020. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "About the project". Climateprediction.net. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "BBC quote of Nick Faull". Bbc.co.uk. 2007-01-21. Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "climate prediction.net". tessella.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Detailed user, host, team and country statistics with graphs for BOINC". boincstats.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2016-06-29.