2014 in numbers – 7,500 years of computing time

In 2014, our volunteers donated nearly 250 billion seconds of computing time.

That’s more than 7,500 years of computing time, completing half a million successful simulations, for a total of nearly 2 billion credits.

As always, our thanks go out to our dedicated volunteers who let us run our climate models on their computers – we really couldn’t do this project at all without you!

We were running several different experiments in 2014 with a nearly even split between 3 big projects:

• Weather@home 2013 Australia and New Zealand heatwaves and drought [hadam3p_anz] 72,172,281,000s
• Weather@home 2014: the causes of the UK winter floods [hadam3p_eu] 61,225,243,00s
• RAPID-CHAAOS [hadcm3n & hadcm3s] 74,039,203,00s + 12,220,935,00s

Other smaller experiments include:

• HYDRA [hadam3pm2] 1,476,378,00s
• Weather@home Climate Accountability: the causes of extreme heat in the Western US [hadam3p_pnw] 16,486,965,00s

See the full breakdown in this pie chart: