Aeronaut wrote: Wow. Didn’t realize the how many processors would be needed, or how big the arrays could be.
There was an experiment in the UK to get the public to run climate models on their home PC’s. The big picture was split into chucks they could cope with – probably just a handful of grid points/cells – which they ran for a week. They e-mailed their results to other members of the public to crunch and so on until it was boiled down to something a single machine could handle.
In the US you would have a bigger catchment, about 60 million processors? Makes the Cray’s 1/4 million look modest. What would that do for you?
