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Ads by Google      Earth Simulator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Earth Simulator Computer is not to be confused with the videogame SimEarth. Earth Simulator was surpassed by IBM's Blue Gene/L prototype on September 29, 2004. The system was developed for NASDA, JAERI, and JAMSTEC in 1997 for climate simulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator   (339 words)      Simulating the Planet Earth: Special Feature  NEC Earth Simulator's computing powers enable a 10km mesh grid capability at the equator that lets scientists model and simulate far smaller clouds than previous supercomputers. Earth Simulator has surpassed all original technical requirements and specifications, achieving a whopping 87.5 percent of peak performance or 35.86TFlops on the LINPACK benchmark with full nodes. Earth Simulator's success would underscore the real economic value of using the best technology to tackle humankind's most difficult problems. http://www.nec.com/global/features/index9   (647 words)      Earth Science on the Earth Simulator I - Union [U] The simulation code for the new method was transferred to the ES and tested with the benchmark test codes for the geodynamo simulation. For the geodynamo simulation, three types of simulation code have been developed on the Earth simulator. With the FEM (Finite Element Method) simulation code, dynamo simulations were performed with E as low as 5 x 10-5. http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp04/wp04-sessions/wp04_U21A.html   (2238 words)      SEMINAR: Earth Simulator, the World's Fastest Supercomputer [PSC] Earth Simulator, capable of executing a maximum of 40 trillion floating-point calculations in a single second, enables highly accurate predictions of changes in the Earth's environment. The goal of the Earth Simulator is to envision the form the Earth will take in the future and to execute simulations to project that form mail as accurately as possible. In addition to its contributions to advances in computer science and technology, the Earth Simulator is expected to achieve dramatic results through various research applications in Japan's most advanced and most critical research fields. http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2003/2003-05-27_esc.html   (190 words)      UCAR Staff Notes: Tapping the Earth Simulator The Earth Simulator uses vector-based computers—a technology that NCAR hasn’t used since its CRAY supercomputers, which operated from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. By having access to the Earth Simulator, scientists will be able to conduct two or more times as many experiments as they could if they were limited to NCAR’s computers. This year, NCAR will use its own computers as well as the Earth Simulator and computers at several Department of Energy centers to run CCSM-3. http://www.ucar.edu/communications/staffnotes/0404/simulator.html   (1578 words)      smh.com.au - Technology Dongarra says that the Earth Simulator is five times faster than the computer that was at No 1 - the ASCI White computer in the US, built to simulate the impact of a nuclear blast. Which is why the world of computing - particularly the part inhabited by supercomputer watchers - is abuzz with the development. "Looking at the fastest computers in the States, the Earth Simulator is faster than the top 20 computers added together," he says. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/03/1019441438865.html   (1331 words)      The Earth Simulator Project The project's simulation of the earth's environment benefits not only meteorology but other fields in earth science as well; another goal of the project is to advance the understanding of long range crustal movements and the mechanisms of seismicity. Thus, by effectively utilizing the immense computational power of the massively parallel Earth Simulator, scientists are able to simulate complex natural phenomena with high resolution and come up with more accurate predictions of global climate changes and meteorological disasters. The scale and complexity of global climate changes forbid direct experiments on such phenomena, and computer simulations thus becomes the most viable approach for studying them. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wychen/cs267/hw0/hw0.htm   (665 words)      Simulating Climate with the Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World The idea behind Japan’s building of this $350-million supercomputer is that with such a powerful computer, it is possible to input the interrelated variables comprising the whole-earth system and simulate the true nature of the planet. The Earth Simulator, with its over 35 trillion calculations per second, is revolutionizing climate research. “Models being run on the Earth Simulator are beginning to also change our views of the ocean, the memory of climate,” says Shang-Ping Xie, a lead scientist with the IPRC and meteorology professor at the University of Hawai‘i. http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20040903095444   (753 words)      Vision Engineer - Earth Simulator Access to the supercomputer is only possible from the computer terminals in the Earth Simulator Research Building, which is adjacent to it. However, as of April 2004, the Earth Simulator still retains its ranking as the fastest computer in the world. However, this is hardly a problem since the Earth Simulator is connected together via a single-stage crossbar network. http://www.visionengineer.com/comp/earth_simulator.shtml   (364 words)      NEC: Press Release 2000/5/30-01 The Earth Simulator is being developed as a project of the Earth Simulator Research and Development Centerc (ESRDC). The Earth Simulator project is designed to enable environmental research through analysis and simulation of the global environment through the realization of a "virtual planet earth" that will enable accurate modeling of geophysical, climate and weather related phenomena. NEC was initially selected to perform the basic design work for the Ultra Computer in 1997, for the technology research and development in 1998, for detailed design work in 1999, and now for the manufacture and implementation of the system. http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0005/3001.html   (743 words)      Japanese 'Computenik' Earth Simulator shatters US supercomputer hegemony "Earth Simulator" type of research in Europe has already decided, at least partially, to run their problems on SX-6 based systems, e.g. A clear advantage of the Japanese approach is that they "only" need 5104 processors for the Earth Simulator. This is a different approach than the Americans are taking, who base the large machines on off-the shelf technology. http://www.hoise.com/primeur/02/articles/weekly/AE-PR-05-02-59.html   (636 words)      NEC Global - Press Release The Earth Simulator was developed by the Earth Simulator Research and Development Center (ESRDC, Kiyoshi Asai, Director), which is a collaborative organization of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA, Shuichiro Yamanouchi, President), Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI, Kenichi Murakami, President), and Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC, Takuya Hirano, President). Since then, NEC has engaged in a series of developments such as the technology research and development in 1998, detailed design in 1999, the manufacture and implementation of the system in 2000, leading up to the completion of the main system and start of operation this year. By developing leading-edge technologies further, NEC intends to work on the tuning in the system's operability and the sustained performance with the maximum efforts for years to come. http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0203/0801.html   (485 words)      Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator The Simulator will consist of integrated software systems for multi-scale, multi-physics simulations of earth systems combined with thematic parallel supercomputer hardware required to simulate the dynamics of the entire earth. Examples include quantum leaps in understanding of earth evolution at global, crustal, regional and microscopic scales; new knowledge of the physics of crustal fault systems required to underpin the grand challenge of earthquake prediction; new understanding and predictive capabilities of geological processes such as tectonics and mineralisation. The facility will be constructed by a multi-disciplinary team of computational scientists and mathematicians, earth scientists, civil engineers and software engineers. http://www.quakes.uq.edu.au/ACESS   (1024 words)      BBC News SCI/TECH Japanese supercomputer simulates Earth The Earth Simulator was built by NEC and achieves its extraordinary performance by using components optimised for the particular problem it sets out to solve. ASCI White has 8,192 processors, while the Earth Simulator has only 5,104. The performance of giant computers like these is judged by the number of floating point operations or Flops - calculations involving non whole numbers - they can carry out every second. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1951000/1951265.stm   (356 words)      Geek.com Geek News - Floating point speed record Every natural and biological process on earth is calculating what the ultimate question of life the universe and everything is. So the Earth Simulator is not the most powerfull computer but the Earth is. The extra dimensional people are watching the calculation in the form of white mice. Earth Simulator is located at the Marine Science and Technology Center. By the way, Deep thought is the old name for the chess playing computer Deep Blue before IBM bought the project. http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002apr/gee20020419011285.htm   (2901 words)      SEISMIC SIMULATOR Each simulation involves tens of millions of operations per second, as the progress of the quakes’ seismic waves is mapped from one cube to the next, gathering speed, slowing down, changing direction, and altering in other ways that depend upon the geological characteristics in that part of the earth. Although detailed information about the earth’s geology has existed for decades, the relatively recent development of the computer cluster plus advancements in 3-D modeling have allowed Tromp to put that information to use in his simulations. “The computer code he developed for simulating seismic wave propagation is the most comprehensive in the world, enabling the first complete solution for wave propagation in a 3-D Earth model,” said Thorne Lay, PhD ’83, professor of Earth sciences and director of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UC Santa Cruz. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v37/seismic.html   (1706 words)      The Earth Simulator - A 40 Tflop/s supercomputing Grand Challenge The hardware for the first version of the Earth Simulator are fixed and based on NEC chip technologies. As part of the system, we are developing the Earth Simulator. KT: (Keiji Tani): The Earth Simulator project has at its core the vision of attempting to predict Global change. http://www.hoise.com/primeur/00/articles/monthly/CL-PR-07-00-2.html   (1580 words)      New Scientist Breaking News - Supercomputer smashes world speed record A spokesman for NEC told New Scientist that the Earth Simulator was tested using the Linpack benchmarking software. The Earth Simulator at the Marine Science and Technology Center in Kanagawa, notched up 35.61 teraflops - that is over 35 trillion "floating point" calculations per second. But Hamid Arabnia, editor in chief of the Journal of Supercomputing, says the Earth Simulator could be built to perform certain tasks very well but not others. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2184   (374 words)      Ultrascale Simulation for Science site - main page Management and project selection process for the Japanese Earth Simulator, the world's fastest general-purpose computer, are described. Outline of the Earth Simulator, Earth Simulator Research and Development Center, September 1999 Earth Simulator Update [PDF] from the Asian Technology Information Program http://www.ultrasim.info   (208 words)      WTEC Study on High-End Computing Research and Development in Japan Management of the Earth Simulator's development and other high performance computing projects, especially the interaction among government, industry, and academe. While the Earth Simulator itself is fairly well known, the main task for this study is to determine what comes after the Earth Simulator in Japan. Implications of the Earth Simulator and likely follow-on machines for other competing architectural designs and machines in Japan (and the U.S.), including, for example, cluster systems. http://wtec.org/hec   (1054 words)      Earth Science on the Earth Simulator II - Union [U] In our simulations, the employed computational domain is near-global region extending from 75S to 75N with the horizontal grid spacing of 0.1 degree and 54 vertical levels. The degree of the coincidence of the timing and amplitude of Nino 3 SST index is more than expected and encourages us to compare carefully the simulated big events in the 1990s with the observations. In order to resolve the eddies of the world ocean, high computational performance is required. http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp04/wp04-sessions/wp04_U22A.html   (1732 words)      Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News The Earth Simulator is used to create computer models of the ocean and Earth's climate. "Models being run on the Earth Simulator are beginning to also change our views of the ocean," said Shang-Ping Xie, a lead scientist with the IPRC and a meteorology professor at UH-Manoa. For example, Xie said, the new computer models are enabling UH scientists to study deep ocean currents 500 meters below the surface -- a capability that did not exist before the Earth Simulator. http://starbulletin.com/2004/09/09/news/story11.html   (250 words)      Japan, Inc.: Heavy weather: from the cutting edge of computing, the Earth Simulator is taking scientists to new ... Japan, Inc.: Heavy weather: from the cutting edge of computing, the Earth Simulator is taking scientists to new frontiers: the planet's most powerful computer seems straight out of Stanley Kubrick's eerie classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heavy weather: from the cutting edge of computing, the Earth Simulator is taking scientists to new frontiers: the planet's most powerful computer seems straight out of Stanley Kubrick's eerie classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. "The primary objective is to make reliable prediction data for Earth's environmental changes, such as global warming and earthquake dynamics," says Tetsuya Sato, director general of the ESC, which is under JAMSTEC. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTN/is_49/ai_110807933   (1560 words)      Tech Papers: Gordon Bell Earth Simulator A spectral atmospheric general circulation model called AFES (AGCM for Earth Simulator) was developed and optimized for the architecture of the Earth Simulator (ES). The HPF system used in the evaluation is HPF/ES, developed for the Earth Simulator by enhancing NEC HPF/SX V2 mainly in communication scalability. High resolution direct numerical simulations (DNS) of incompressible turbulence with the number of grid points up to 4096^3 have been performed on the Earth Simulator (ES). http://sc-2002.org/abstracts_papers/ab_paper17.html   (520 words)      Idea: Earth simulator game - Tilted Mill Community The simulations are also of necessity complex and chaotic which means the same inputs may result in different outputs! I agree with your mechanism but the game will need a set of equations to simulate it, including climate inputs and outputs. Now that we know about chaos theory and the "butterfly effect", a real climate simulator game might take a supercomputer to run. http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7021   (2002 words)      SPACE.com -- Fastest Computer Spawns High-Tech Race For the Japanese scientists using the $350 million computer, it means climate research, with its complex simulations and diverse mix of variables, is more accurate than ever before. And by 2010, it has taken on a government challenge to create a computer which will be measured in petaflops _ a mindboggling 1,000 trillion calculations per second. With its massive horsepower, the computer can model weather at 100 times the resolution of previous simulations, said Tetsuya Sato, director-general of the Earth Simulator Center. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/super_computer_021217.html   (746 words)      NEC is king of the supercomputers - ZDNet UK News The most powerful computer is the Earth Simulator, created by Japanese computing giant NEC as part of an initiative sponsored by Japan's Science and Technology Agency (now called the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). The Earth Simulator scored more than 40,000 points on the new rating system, while IBM grabbed 4,900 points. The computer beats out IBM's ASCI White computer with 8,192 processors by a wide margin. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,2110427,00.htm   (690 words)      Science Netlinks: Science Updates In an international competition of computing power held this year, the champion was a machine called the Earth Simulator. Having access to this level of computing will help scientists predict short and long-term changes in climate, earthquakes, and other major earth processes. The computer you're using to read this webpage, if it's brand new and running at the top of its game, might perform up to one billion operations per second. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=239   (735 words)      Experts debate U S response to Japan's Earth Simulator For one reason, no application exists that can take advantage of that level of computing power, which is why the theoretical peak performance of a supercomputer is significantly higher than its actual performance under real-world conditions. David Turek, vice president of Deep Computing at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, bristles at the idea that commodity processor-based supercomputers are somehow inferior to vector processor-based systems built by Cray or NEC. Christopher Jehn, vice president of government programs for Cray Inc., said Japan is making improvements to its Earth Simulator while the U.S. supercomputing community awaits additional research funding. http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/18_21/emerging-tech/22696-1.html   (1923 words)      SGI Onyx Systems Provide Visualization Power for Japan's Earth Simulator The visualization solution enables researchers to view and more effectively analyze simulations generated by the 5,120-processor vector supercomputer, which is operated in the Earth Simulator Center of the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi. Both Onyx systems capture simulation data via the Earth Simulator Center's infrastructure network and create visualization data for real-time projection on the BRAVE system. This technology will greatly enhance our collaboration and discovery capabilities." The SGI visualization solution allows researchers to visualize the terabytes of data generated as the Earth Simulator computes various high-resolution meteorological and scientific models. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2004/0002119314&EDATE=   (543 words)      TIME.com: Best Inventions 2002 - Earth Simulator Before the Earth Simulator arrived, the fastest computer in the world was an American military machine that can perform 7.2 trillion calculations per second. By plugging real-life climate data from satellites and ocean buoys into the Earth Simulator, researchers can create a computer model of the entire planet, then scroll it forward in time to see what will happen to our environment. The Earth Simulator, the most powerful supercomputer ever built, was designed for a single purpose: to create a virtual twin of our home planet. http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/rob_earth.html   (330 words)      BlueGene sneaks past Earth Simulator The Register The margin by which Blue Gene/L overtook the Earth Simulator is small, but the machine is much smaller, and more efficient to run, IBM says. David Turek, vice president for deep computing at IBM, says the machine is the beginning of a new era in supercomputing. The Earth Simulator, an NEC supercomputer, is surpassed, at last. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/29/supercomputer_ibm   (459 words)      PCQuest : Supercomputer : The Champs While US computers have held the crown for quite some time, Japan has now claimed the crown with the Earth Simulator, achieving about five times the peak performance of IBM’s reigning ASCI White. This machine is made up of 64 Alpha server ES40s, each with four 667 MHz processors and 4 GB of memory. Each node consists of 8 vector processors, and has a shared memory of 16 GB, with the total system offering 10 terrabytes of storage. http://www.pcquest.com/content/Supercomputer/102051007.asp   (681 words)      apcmag.com: Numero uno: Earth Simulator, Japan Director of the Earth Simulator Project, Dr Tetsuya Sato explains: "The primary use of the Earth Simulator (ES) is to predict global climate changes as precisely as possible. Dr Sato is coy."Since this kind of simulator is expensive, what we should all do is to give clear evidences to [the] public that the investment of developing such an expensive simulator as the Earth Simulator is not a waste but an excellent benefit." NEC worked with the Earth Simulator Research and Development Centre, a peak body comprised of the National Space Development Agency of Japan, the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre, and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/7AF8D30474625DC4CA256D44001A5864   (626 words)      Earth Simulator Project home page The project's main aim is an Earth System Simulation of the 21st century, at resolutions impossible on less powerful computers and including fully coupled climate-ecosystem-chemistry processes. An ambitious programme of model integrations and climate research is planned on the Earth Simulator - the worlds most powerful computer. What will be the wider changes in the life-support systems of the Earth (e.g. http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/earth_simulator/index.php   (224 words)      IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S. IBM has assembled a 16,000 processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer, which on Sept. 16 edged out the Earth Simulator, built by IBM rival NEC, according to benchmarks run by Big Blue. IBM's benchmark results are big news, for the U.S. as well as IBM, said Horst Simon, associate laboratory director of computing sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a maintainer of the Top500 list. On the June version Top500 list, the Earth Simulator was benchmarked at 35.86 teraflops. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/0929ibmrecla.html?fsrc=netflash-rss   (1258 words)      New Scientist Breaking News - Earth Simulator still supercomputer champion The Earth simulator is an example of this more traditional form of supercomputing, which Linpack tests well. Both are prototypes for Blue Gene/L, a joint venture between IBM and LLNL that its creators hope will topple the Earth Simulator by 2005. It has held the record since June 2002, when the Japanese behemoth knocked an IBM computer off top spot. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6045   (736 words)      High energy marks high-performance modeling and computing workshop The Earth Simulator project is overseen by MEXT, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Climate modelers and software experts from Europe, Japan, and the United States gathered at NCAR’s Mesa Lab from 12 to 14 March to discuss model development in light of computer architectures of today and tomorrow. The Earth Simulator includes a total of 640 machines, all connected by a 12-gigabyte-per-second network. http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/summer02/energy.html   (661 words)      Japanese 'Earth Simulator' supercomputer beats out U.S. computer as world's fastest He expects U.S. researchers and others to try to tap into Earth Simulator's massive computing power. Japanese 'Earth Simulator' supercomputer beats out U.S. computer as world's fastest The new supercomputer, housed at the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, is a breakthrough not just for Japanese technology but scientists everywhere, said Dongarra. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/04/20/national2010EDT0620.DTL&type=tech   (254 words)      The Earth Simulator Center Annual Meeting for the Earth Simulator Research Projects in FY2005 will be held as follows. Slides presented at Workshop on High Resolution Atmospheric Simulations and Cooperative Output Data Analysis are now available. Tetsuya Sato, the Director-General of the Earth Simulator Center, has received the second John Dawson Prize at ICNSPandAPPTC joint international conference, which was held on July 12-15, 2005, at the Nara-Ken New Public Hall in Nara, Japan. http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng   (85 words)      Earth Simulator - Supercomputing To carry out a full life cycle convective scale simulation of Hurricane Earl (1998) which transitioned into an extra-tropical system with heavy precipitation affecting the Canadian Maritime Provinces a Canadian team has used the world’s fastest computer, the Earth Simulator (ES) in Japan that ranks first on the TOP-500 list. This is approximately showing only 1% of the total surface of the computing domain! The following simulation shows the first 12 hours of the simulated specific humidity (altitude 325m), September 1, 1998, for a 1000 x 1000 km sub-domain over the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.earthsimulator.us   (176 words)      Invasion of the robots CNET News.com A 1,500-gram human brain can churn at about 100 trillion instructions a second, according to a paper recently published by Carnegie Mellon's Moravec--nearly three times the power of the Earth Simulator, the world's most powerful computer. Under Moore's Law, processing performance could increase to the point where machines can work almost as well as the human brain. Mobile robots like the PackBot or like those from Workhorse are good at taking pictures or delivering items, but picking things up is another matter. http://news.com.com/Invasion+of+the+robots/2009-1040_3-5171948.html   (2121 words)      Miyoshi on the Earth Simulator (ResearchIndex) Hajime Miyoshi, the Director of the Earth Simulator Research and Development Center, to hear his views on high performance computing and its applications in Japan. KEYWORDS: High-Performance Computing, Government Policy on Science and Technology COUNTRY: Japan REPORT CONTENTS 1. @misc{ or-miyoshi, author = "Ul At Or", title = "Miyoshi on the Earth Simulator", url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/413029.html" } http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/413029.html   (176 words)      Earth Simulator Description: Coupled Atmosphere?Ocean Simulation Using CFES We carry out simulation researches using CFES (CGCM for the Earth Simulator) to understand the mechanism of the variability and to study the predictability in the coupled atmosphere?ocean system. Description: Oceanic Simulation Using OFES We carry out simulation researches using OFES (OGCM for the Earth Simulator) to study the effects of meso-scale phenomena on the ocean general circulation and the material transport. Description: Atmospheric Simulation Using AFES We carry out simulation researches using AFES (AGCM for the Earth Simulator) to understand the mechanism of the variability with time scale from a few days to decades and to study the predictability in the atmosphere. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/records/Earth_Simulator.html   (357 words)      edie news centre - First results from Earth Simulator unveiled The Earth simulator is the world’s biggest and fastest supercomputer, ten times more powerful than any other computer available to scientists in the UK. The simulator has been designed by researchers from Japan and Britain and is housed in Japan. Researchers say the simulator will be able to predict the regional impacts of damaging storms more accurately and help to prioritise investment in devising strategies to adapt to climate change. http://www.edie.net/news/Archive/7582.cfm   (364 words)      Earth Simulator loses its top spot News It's a long way from the worlds first super computer, the Cray-1, which was built almost 30 years ago, that reached a whopping 80 mega flops, Blue Gene is 5 million times faster! The former fastest computer clocked up a staggering 35 Terraflops score, but thats nothing compared to what replaced it Blue Gene is an IBM machine currently in testing, It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for the US Department of Energy. http://www.certforums.co.uk/forums/thread3086.html   (447 words)      IUGG 2003 Scientific Program As a branch project of the Earth Simulator initiative, we are collaborating with FRSGC to try to implement the IARC sea-ice model into our OGCM code optimized for the Earth Simulator. Recent dramatic change of the cryosphere including sea-ice is considered as a silent precursor of the effect of the global warming to be maximized in the polar region and the development of a reliable sea-ice model is one of the urgent issues for climate variability studies and the global warming assessment. As a first step towards such a goal, we have implemented the IARC model into the OFES (MOM3-based OGCM for the Earth Simulator). http://www.olympus.net/IAPSO/abstracts03/JSP04/01/020893-1.html   (376 words)      BBC NEWS Science/Nature Earth Simulator delights scientists The workshop organisers say e-science technologies (using the internet for scientific research and exchanging information) are central to its success, because much of the work being presented involves analysing huge datasets derived from computer models using platforms like the Earth Simulator. The simulator consists of 640 nodes (the equivalent of individual computers) linked together by 83,000 high-speed cables: the building which houses it has a floor space the size of four tennis courts. The computer's results hold out the prospect of better predictions of the likelihood of increasing hurricanes, prolonged heavy rain, and heatwaves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3152564.stm   (568 words)      Questions and Answers Q: A client asked me what I knew about a NEC computer called Earth Simulator. Earth Simulator is NEC’s fastest supercomputer, and as far as I can determine there is only one of them. If that sounds like a lot, it is. The Earth Simulator has demolished the record set by IBM’s Blue Storm, also designed for weather simulations. http://www.tpci.com/qanda_28.htm   (764 words)      Earth Simulator Project home page The theatre of 'human computers' imagined by the mathematician L F Richardson in 1922 - the equivalent of a modern day multi-processor computer. A partnership between the Hadley Centre, the NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, the Earth Simulator, the Center for Climate System Research and the Frontier Research Center for Global Change CGAM Hadley Centre Earth Simulator Center CCSR FRCGC http://www.earthsimulator.org.uk/launch.php   (223 words)

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