Using a supercomputer like a magic cube as tall as a two-story building, Chinese scientists want to calculate the future of the earth.
They hope to calculate almost everything in natural earth systems from the growing of a cloud to the changes of climate hundreds or thousands of years in the future with the buzzing, blue “magic cube”, in the Zhongguancun Software Park in northern Beijing.
Several research institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), including the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, the Institute of Computing Technology, the Computer Information Center and Sugon Information Industry Company, have jointly unveiled the special supercomputer named the prototype of Earth System Numerical Simulator and the software “CAS Earth System Model 1.0” running on the device.
The prototype is about one tenth the size of a future earth simulator, which is still in design, and will be used by scientists to develop the final simulator, and conduct short-term climate forecasts and control of air pollution .... http://www.icrosschina.com
