Blow climate modeling, a plague on market forecasting, some people think we should be modelling the whole earth!

Reported at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082 and http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/FuturICT

...and how does one spell "modelling", anyway?

Living Earth Simulator will analyze the entire planet, everything


The BBC reports that an international group of scientists are working on a simulator with the goal of replicating everything that happens on Earth. It will track everything from weather patterns to disease spreading to traffic congestion to financial transactions all over the globe. The Living Earth Simulator (LES), as it is nicknamed, is being created to advance scientific understanding about everything that is happening on the planet to attempt to figure out what “human actions shape society” and how everything changes the world.

Hebling chairs the FuturICT project, the group that plans to create the simulator. And how exactly will they have the processing power to analyze everything? Well, for starters, the scientists plan to build a number of supercomputers to crunch the numbers. They will likely also use processing power from all across the net, asking mobile and computer users to donate a small portion of their processing to the project.


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