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posted by chromas on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the SimEarth dept.

After four years of development, the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) will be unveiled today and released to the broader scientific community this month. The E3SM project is supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science in the Biological and Environmental Research Office. The E3SM release will include model code and documentation, as well as output from an initial set of benchmark simulations.

[...] The goal of the project is to develop an earth system model (ESM) that has not been possible because of limitations in current computing technologies. Meeting this goal will require advances on three frontiers: 1) better resolving earth system processes through a strategic combination of developing new processes in the model, increased model resolution and enhanced computational performance; 2) representing more realistically the two-way interactions between human activities and natural processes, especially where these interactions affect U.S. energy needs; and 3) ensemble modeling to quantify uncertainty of model simulations and projections.

E3SM will provide insights on earth system interactions in the Arctic and their influence on mid-latitude weather. In this E3SM model simulation, winter storm clouds, represented here by outgoing longwave radiation, or OLR, affect sea ice coverage as the clouds move across the Arctic.

The full press release can be found online.

Source: https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/04/23/new-exascale-system-for-earth-simulation-introduced/


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  • (Score: 2) by fadrian on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:11AM (2 children)

    by fadrian (3194) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:11AM (#671035) Homepage

    Well, I guess the administration can repurpose the system to simulate nuclear weapons. That's in the same department. Who needs this sciency stuff more than our valiant warriors anyway?

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    That is all.
    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:28PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:28PM (#671212)

      Beat me to it.
      If we didn't spend so much effort improving the ways we kill each other, would we be routinely going to Mars and predicting Earthquakes, or would we still be up in the trees ?

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:41AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:41AM (#671503) Homepage Journal

      People don't know this, we stopped our nuclear testing. And now we use computer, we use digital instead. To make sure our nuclear arsenal is PERFECTO. North Korea, they have some very smart cookies. And they just stopped their testing, because of me. Because I'm going to negotiate with them. I haven't even started, and already we're making big progress. It's going to be amazing. I want them to denuke. And I haven't offered them anything. But one thing I can offer them is that digital. Winning!

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