What a great team this is turning out to be. It's got the website of David Autumns, the speed of CompuDude, and the wisdom of lawrencehardin.
Patriotism still holds me back.

Checking out the stats for the most points received yesterday -
I see that Russia has launched ahead of the US.
Notice though, that IBM maintains nearly half of the top 50 positions.
The USA teams will likely overtake the top few positions simply from the sheer propaganda and involvement. This will only occur if the project runs for longer than an additional 6 months.

BTW, I wonder what good ol' NEC's Earth Simulator was doing at the time of that earthquake? Perhaps that would make a clear and compelling case for the use of the grid. Can you imagine the thrill of contributing to the knowlege that this earthquake was going to occur? Saving tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars of destruction... Instantly.


But...then again...If it failed in the detection, like the satelites and supercomputers and various scales and measures apparently failed, then we would all be left wondering if it was at all worth it.

My apologies on the thread hijack - just ranting from being up so late (as usual)