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Subject: Viridian Note 00108: More Distributed Climate Computing
Key concepts: Casino-21 Project, climate models, computational Attention Conservation Notice: This was a great idea, and now it bids fair to become a great project. In future, we'll be paying plenty of attention to the fate of this Viridian darling.
Entries in the Viridian Solar Switchplate Contest:
http://www.powerbase-alpha.com/bigmike/switchplate.html
http://downlode.org/viridian/
Link: http://www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/
From: allen@dipsy.ag.rl.ac.uk* (Myles Allen) "Greetings, "Three weeks on from the publication of the original article in NATURE, we have over 11,000 enthusiastic punters, cautious but nevertheless remarkably positive support from the UK Met Office (perhaps I was unfair on peer-review committees), discussions going with IBM, BP, Apple and various software houses, and, last but by no means least, a lively debate in the scientific community as to how exactly the experiment should work.
"In short, a project, which certainly would not havehappened without your help. So, thank you very much, and now the hard work begins.
"We didn't ask the usual marketing questions, so I'mafraid I can't tell you whose coverage reached the largest number of people, but the prize for the best headline must surely go to Bruce Sterling at Viridian:
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"Yours sincerely, Myles Allen" Myles R. Allen Phone (RAL): 44-1235-446480 Space Science Department Ph (Oxford): 44-1865-272085 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Fax: 44-1235-445848 Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX e-mail: m.r.allen@rl.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/ O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O JUST IMAGINE MY TRIUMPHANT VIRIDIAN RIGHTEOUSNESS AS MY COMPUTER MODELS OUR GLOBAL CLIMATE WHILE POWERED BY GLEAMING, BRAND-NEW,SEXY SOLAR PANELS! O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O |
