Environmental changes have particularly serious implications for Africa
because of the widespread lack of healthcare and social services. The
AfricanClimate@Home project will use the grid's massive computing power to
improve regional climate models, allowing for more accurate predictions of how
changing weather patterns will affect the continent.
Users of the system download a client program which carries out minor
calculations while their computer is idle. The combined activity of the grid's
global community creates a virtual supercomputer, capable of powerful data
processing tasks.
The AfricanClimate@Home project will use the processing power to create
algorithms used in simulations of flooding and similar climate problems. The
virtual models will then be compared with real-world observations.
'Making predictions about the climate requires an enormous amount of
computational power because of all of the variables, such as temperature, wind,
pressure, and humidity,' said Dr. Mark Tadross, lead researcher.
'By using World Community Grid, we have the computational power necessary to
run the tests we need to improve our models.'
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