http://climateprediction.net/ BOINC project climateprediction.net: Main page News University of Oxford Fri, 16 May 2008 11:24:57 GMT en-gb http://climateprediction.net/rss_image.jpg http://climateprediction.net/ Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:30:00 GMT The BBC Climate Change Experiment has won the internet category of the Prix Europa, a pan-European media award. More details can be seen on the Prix Europa website. We would like to thank once again our BBC participants for all their efforts towards making this possible. Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:07:01 GMT On the 11th of August Oxford University will be shutting off the power to its computing services' server room for a routine electrical inspection (this happens every 5 years). The server room houses the CPDN servers, so there will be no service from Friday evening until Sunday morning at the earliest. Please note that these times are longer than originally expected as the maintenance duration has been extended. We expect our servers to be fully functioning again by Monday morning at the latest. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:10:11 GMT Chris Knight, together with various members of the cpdn team, have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which looks at what factors most effect the result that a climate model gives, using data from the first, 3 phase, slab ocean experiments (see http://www.climateprediction.net/science/strategy.php). Reassuringly, the paper finds that model parameters matter much more than what computer you happen to run the model on. The paper has received a mention in 'The Economist' (http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9433721) and Environmental Research Web (http://www.environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/research/30501), It has already appeared as an 'early edition' and will probably be in next weeks PNAS. Unfortunately, unless you subscribe to PNAS, you wont be able to view the paper there for 6 months, so follow the link at the bottom to see a pre-publication version of the paper.http://www.climateprediction.net/science/pubs/PNAS_knightetal_2007.pdf Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:24:34 GMT Sorry for the downtime, but the database server has had some major upgrades and everything is back online. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:24:34 GMT Due to some unscheduled maintenance, the database server will be down over the next day or two. We hope to have things back up as soon as possible. Fri, 25 May 2007 09:37:34 GMT Various climateprediction.net scientists, as well as other authors from around the world, have contributed to this special themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The papers in the issue give an overview of state-of-the-art techniques in ensemble climate prediction. Climateprediction.net participants can purchase the issue at the special discounted price (£47.50/US$90 instead of £58/US$107) by contacting Debbie Vaughan at the Royal Society (debbie.vaughan@royalsoc.ac.uk) Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:49 GMT The BBC Climate Change Experiment including the documentaries 'Meltdown' and 'Climate Change: Britain Under Threat' have been nominated for an award in the Interactivity category by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Thanks to everyone taking part and making this possible! The winner will be announced 20 May 2007 in the ceremony at the London Palladium. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:42 GMT We have just released new versions with 92% reduction in disk IO, including a version for Intel Macs. New workunits have also been generated, so enjoy crunching! Please note that a BOINC version > 5.0 is required.