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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 815 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That's one of the hard things with being on the cutting edge; you need to make tools to do things people never imagined before. And it often takes longer than you think because no one has done this.
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That's one of the hard things with being on the cutting edge; you need to make tools to do things people never imagined before. And it often takes longer than you think because no one has done this. And they already said they found bugs in the software to start with! |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2069 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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 I have been wondering what ARP (from the names of the new BETA tasks) could mean.  Inadvertently I was looking at the Research Overview page and my eyes were curiously drawn to Climate Change to the left.  After clicking that link I couldn't help looking for the letters A, R and P and quickly I noticed "Rainfall modeling in Africa".  The first line underneath that text tells us: In Africa, agriculture relies heavily on localized rainfall, which is difficult to predict.  A few moments later it dawned on me and so if I was to make a small prediction for the name of the new project it would be: African Rainfall Prediction.  Of course this could be completely wrong.  |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Could be. I can't decide if the techs are being forthcoming with the beta WU names because the three projects are already released, or if they are being sneaky (African rainfall could be the third to be released, and the three betas could be ARP1, ARP2, and ARP3).
----------------------------------------If it is the African rainfall project, based on the information in the beta thread that each WU is looking at 81 sq km over 48 hrs, for one year of prediction at quorum 2, that puts us around 137 million WUs. Potentially closer to 150 million after resends and depending on how things along the coasts are split up. With the run times happening in beta, that would put this project into the MCM category in terms of size. |
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Former Member
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I have been wondering what ARP (from the names of the new BETA tasks) could mean. Inadvertently I was looking at the Research Overview page and my eyes were curiously drawn to Climate Change to the left. After clicking that link I couldn't help looking for the letters A, R and P and quickly I noticed "Rainfall modeling in Africa". The first line underneath that text tells us: In Africa, agriculture relies heavily on localized rainfall, which is difficult to predict. A few moments later it dawned on me and so if I was to make a small prediction for the name of the new project it would be: African Rainfall Prediction. Of course this could be completely wrong. Once upon a time a follow up project to AfricanClimate@Home was promised but no takers in terms of development were found (or the money ran out). It'd be nice to take this up again for a larger area. |
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3rkko
Advanced Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 2, 2008 Post Count: 105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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African Rainfall Prediction Good guess! I think you might be right.  |
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Jim1348
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African Rainfall Prediction Good guess! I think you might be right. We need it in the U.S. |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2384 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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American Rainfall Prediction
----------------------------------------Annual Rainfall Prediction Antarctic Rainfall Prediction Anthropocene Rainfall Prediction (my favorite) Arctic Rainfall Prediction Asian Rainfall Prediction Atlantic Rainfall Prediction   ...KRI please cancel all shadow-banning |
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Jean-David Beyer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 2, 2007 Post Count: 335 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There are those who believe that Darwin was wrong, that man has devolved from his ancestors and is, in fact, the lowest of the animals. Among them is Mark Twain.
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... and there are those who think that so much fossil fuel will be burnt generating electricity to run the computers to perform the climate simulations that global warming will be significantly increased, so the calculations will have to be run all over again ...
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