[Wrf-users] WRF on IBM world community grid

[Igor Oliveira]

Dear WRF users,

The Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) based at the University of  
Cape Town (UCT) is pleased to announce that WRF is being used in a  
joint project with a IBM to understand climate change processes in  
Africa using Grid Computing. Since the beginning of September, we  
made 'AfricanClimate at Home' available on www.worldcommunitygrid.org.   
Any home user can log to this site, download the project agent and  
start donating idle CPU time to our research by running WRF on their  
local machine. We would like to thank the IBM team for their effort  
in making this possible and also the feedback received from the model  
developers during the process.

We would like to emphasize that this opens several opportunities for  
using WRF for this kind of platform. World Community Grid is a  
powerful tool used to perform the highly demanding computer  
simulations that normal model users face everyday. In our case this  
platform made possible to conduct the kind of research that would  
take a much longer time with the usual resources we have at our  
disposal.

If you could kindly take the time to learn more about the project,  
these are the links:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Project Website:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/ach/viewAchMain.do


Thank you all,

Igor C Oliveira
Climate System Analysis Group
Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3
Rondebosch 7701
South Africa
Tel. No: +27 021 6505774 (office)
Mobile: +27 073 4386719


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