NASA Launches Climate Change Supercomputer

I don't care for it. I'd rather the same amount of $ was spent on tax credits for participation in distributed computing.

http://climateprediction.net/
What is climateprediction.net?

Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.

What do we ask you to do?

We need you to run a climate model on your computer. The model will run automatically as a background process on your computer whenever you switch your computer on ... As the model runs, you can watch the weather patterns on your unique version of the world evolve. The results are sent back to us via the internet, and you will be able to see a summary of your results on this web site...

How do you sign up?
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Almost as many people already participate in Climateprediction.net as the 56,832 cpu cores of the NASA supercomputer, and although many are only available when computers are on but idle, I think tax credits that would have cost less could have enticed enough participants to far surpass the total computing power. And the data could be stored using jigdo or bt.
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