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Monday, June 28, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Simulate global climate change at home -- Comment()
Test the plausibility of The Day After Tomorrow: "Computer users are being invited to download and run a climate model of what may happen this century. The test will see how predictions may change if the behaviour of the Gulf Stream is affected, as the film shows. The project is the work of climateprediction.net, a consortium of UK universities and the Met Office."
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Updated Top 500 supercomputer list -- Comment()
Top500 Supercomputer List Updated: "There has been quite a bit of shuffling around in the latest edition of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world. The full list has been published along with a press release covering the changes to the top 10." [Matt Croydon::postneo] Finland has now dropped to position 186 with the IBM p690 system. Just a year ago this system was in position 38. Fast changes indeed.
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A massive Xserve G5 cluster: 'The US Army has ordered a massive Xserve G5 cluster with 1566 nodes. Named "Mach 5," the system is expected to place as high as second in the world.' [Ars Technica]
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